Mission

The European Compost Network is the leading European membership organisation promoting sustainable recycling practices in composting, anaerobic digestion and other biological treatment processes of organic resources. Our purpose is to work with practitioners and policy makers to deliver integrated organic waste recycling solutions that generate high quality products for the benefit of consumers and the environment. It serves as the central resource and network for the biowaste recycling sector in Europe.

Vision

The European Compost Network’s vision is a Europe in which all organic resources are recycled to land sustainably and/or used to generate renewable energy to the benefit of the environment, society and businesses. To achieve this, effective recycling in all member states should be dependent on separately collected organic wastes, biologically processed by trained operators and monitored within an independent quality assurance scheme in order to manufacture quality compost and digestate that can be applied to land safely.