Compost collection and processing programs continue to grow across the U.S., while the challenge of keeping feedstocks clean remains an ongoing operational and financial burden to processing facilities.

CMA’s mission is to make compost manufacturing more sustainable by working proactively to field test and identify compostable products in real-world processing technologies, while also engaging the supply chain in collaboratively working to minimize other inbound contaminants.

Compost manufacturers have free access to field-tested product acceptance lists developed by over 20 facilities on a technology basis (windrow, ASP, mass bed, covered in-vessel ASP), as well as relevant information available that addresses consumer, stakeholder, and supply chain issues.

Compost facilities in the U.S. play a vital role in supporting the need for processing capacity as businesses, college campuses, policymakers, and solid waste professionals push for more volume and greater diversity in feedstocks intended for compost facilities.

The current focus in many cities and towns is the inclusion of food scraps, compostable service ware, adding commercial food scrap collection, multi-family food scrap collection, closed system paper towel collection programs, along with many other emerging programs focused on minimizing landfill waste.