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European Compost Network ECN e.V. - Postbox 22 29 - D-99403 Weimar (Germany)
Phone:+49 (0) 25 22-960 341 - Fax: +49 (0) 25 22-960 343 - info@compostnetwork.info

About ECN

About the Network

The Network is a collaboration of partners, promoting sustainable practices in composting, anaerobic digestion and other treatment procedures for organic residues across Europe. It aims to address the needs of both practical operators and decision makers.

Clean Sources

 

Residual Waste

Source separation of organic residues from households and gardens is a success story of most European countries, thereby helping to meet recycling and climate change targets and market requirements.

Various separate collection systems (by bins or bags) have shown their effectiveness when it comes to quality and costs.

Best practices in
the treatment of the organic residues by composting for anaerobic digestion combined with quality management systems, help to
meet standards and fulfil market needs.

High quality composts and digestates find markets and close the organic loop successfully.

 

Despite all source
separation efforts, the residual waste stream still contains degradable organic residues.








Mechanical-biological treatment MBT is devised to increase the caloriifc value
of materials suitable for energy recovery and reduces fermentabilty
of residues to be
landfilled.








After the stabilisation step, the residuals are suitable for landfilling in line with the EU Landfill Directive.

Our working fields

  • Data collection and European surveys
  • Contributions to developments in the EU
  • Concepts meeting EU legislation
  • High quality, cost effective source separation
  • Best practices in treatment procedures
  • Standards and quality monitoring
  • Compost application and marketing
  • Research and technology news
  • Environmental effects

General structure of ECN

In 2010 ECN and the ORBIT association - a well known worldwide technical-scientific network promoting the recovery of organic waste and environmental biotechnology - merged. The common activites will be continued in a new association entitled European Compost Network ECN e.V.

Membership of the ECN encompasses organic waste experts, treatment plants and biowaste organisations working for, or with, the sustainable recovery of biomass. Members stem from almost all European and Candidate Countries.

The ECN is managed by a Board of Country Representatives, who are either experts or rep-resentatives of national biowaste organisations in their respective country. Each representative is responsible for providing the ECN Network with relevant information about the national biowaste management.

A number of working groups have been established to address specific issues and topics. These are managed by the Board of the ECN.

Membership is available to all persons, companies and organisations interested in promoting the sustainable management and recycling of biological wastes.

All members gain access to the ORBIT and ECN web sites, the ECN working groups, and the electronic forum, as well as the ECN Newsletter about biowaste developments across Europe.



ECN Country Representatives

Collection of information and contact management into each of the European countries are based on the work of the national Country Representatives which are acknowledged experts or delegates of nationwide active biowaste/compost organisations with a maximum of two persons per country.

  • Austria 
  • KEB - Compost - Consulting & Development Mr. Florian Amlinger (CV)
  • Austria 
  • KGVÖ -  Austrian Compost Quality Association  Mr. Horst Mueller (CV)
  • Belgium
  • VLACO - Flemish Compost Organisation Ms Elke Vandaele
  • Czech Republic
  • CZ BIOM - Czech Biomass Association Mr. Jan Habart  (CV)
  • Denmark 
  • Solum Group Mr. Morten Broegger (CV)
  • Finland 
  • Biolaitosyhdistys Mr. Christoph Gareis (CV)
  • France 
  • ADEME - French Agency for Environment and Energy Ms Isabelle Feix 
  • France 
  • RITTMO Dr. Laure Metzger (CV)
  • Germany 
  • German Compost Quality Assurance Organisation  Dr. Bertram Kehres
  • Greece 
  • Harokopio University Dr. Katia Lasaridi (CV)
  • Greece
  • Compost Hellas Ms Caterina Xenopoulou
  • Hungary 
  • Hungarian Compost Quality Assurance Association Dr. Laszlo Alexa
  • Hungary 
  • University of Gödöllö Professor György Füleky (CV)
  • Ireland 
  • Cré Teo - The Composting Association of Ireland Dr. Munoo Prasad (CV) / Mr. Percy Foster (CV)
  • Ireland 
  • EPA - Environmental Protection Agency Regional Mr. Brian Donlon
  • Italy 
  • Integrated Wast Management Research Group - Scuola Agraria del Parco di Monza Mr. Enzo Favoino (CV)
  • Lithuania
  • VSA Holding Mr. Vidas Andrikis
  • Luxembourg 
  • Iglux s.a.r.l.  Mr. Klaus Groell
  • Luxembourg
  • Admin d. L`Environment Ms J. Mathieu
  • Netherlands 
  • Dutch Waste Management Association Mr. John van Haeff (CV)
  • Netherlands
  • BVOR - Association of Dutch Greenwaste Composting Plants Dr. Paul J. M. Sessink (CV)
  • Norway 
  • Avfall Norge Mr. Henrik Lystad
  • Poland 
  • Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation Dr. Grzegorz Siebielec (CV)
  • Portugal 
  • Environmental Engineering Department - New University of Lisbon Professor Ana Silveira (CV)
  • Slovakia 
  • Agricultural University Slovakia Dr. Peter Kovacik
  • Slovenia
  • University of Ljubljana Dr. Ivan Gobec
  • Spain 
  • Agencia de Residus de Catalunya Mr. Francesc Giro i Fontanals
  • Sweden
  • Avfall Sverige - Waste Management Sweden Ms Angelika Blom
  • Switzerland 
  • Environment and Compost Consulting Dr. Konrad Schleiss
  • United Kingdom 
  • TCA - The Composting Association Dr. Jane Gilbert

ECN Working Groups

The sustainable management of biowastes relies upon efficient source separation, effective processing standards carried out by well educated plant operators, robust quality monitoring, high quality composts and safe compost application. The EU Commission has embraced these concepts in its draft working documents for a possible EU Biowaste legislation. With these in mind, the ECN has established several working groups for:

WG1: EU Affairs
ECN looks for a common European strategy through creative, scientifically sound, technically aware assistance for the Biowaste Directive. This includes the target to establish high quality composts as a product on the EU market.

WG2: Standards and quality monitoring
ECN will give assistance to the necessary European standards for analysis and sample taking (e.g. CEN), in addition for standards for biowaste based products and for common structures for quality assurance systems which allow a future EU harmonisation.

WG3: Compost Marketing and Application
This working group deals with the whole range of compost marketing in practice, like marketing tools and campaigns, product specifications, information about compost application, sales promotion, sales organisation und Public Relation material.

WG4: Good practise in biological waste treatment plants incl. separate collection
In order to find sustainable and flexible solutions for the treatment of the organic waste the main treatement technologies composting, anaerobic digestion and mechanical bological treatment have to be taken in consideration.
Therefore two task forces were installed within the WG4:

  • Task Group AD: Good practice in anaerobic digestion plants
  • Task Group MBT: Good practice in mechanical-biological waste treatment plants

Experiences show that the operation in biowaste plants is carried out from best to worst. A unique high production standard and management of environmental side effects (e.g. odours) requires detailed information for plant operators.

WG5: Support of the Development in Eastern + Mediteranean Countries
Assist the Mediterranean and Acceding Countries to treat biowastes according to forthcoming EU regulations and common standards.