BAS EN 13432:2008

Packaging - Requirements for packaging recoverable through composting and biodegradation - Test scheme and evaluation criteria for the final acceptance of packaging


General Information
Status: Published
No. of pages: 22
Language: English
Edition: 1.
Adoption method: Endorsment
Publication date: 09.09.2008
Directive:
94/62/EC, Packaging and packaging waste;
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Abstract
This European Standard specifies requirements and procedures to determine the compostability and anaerobic treatability of packaging and packaging materials by addressing four characteristics: 1) biodegradability; 2) disintegration during biological treatment; 3) effect on the biological treatment process; 4) effect on the quality of the resulting compost. In case of a packaging formed by different components, some of which are compostable and some other not, the packaging itself, as a whole is not compostable.

Lifecycle
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Original document and degree of correspondence
  • EN 13432:2000, identical