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Home composting scheme in Flanders
The system of Home Composting (HC) originated in Canada and was imported to Flanders in the early 1990s.
Flanders has since 1992 gradually, through renewed Household Waste Management Plans (HWMP), implemented a comprehensive HC programme. In this plans HC is considered as waste prevention and the first priority in the Flemish waste policy. More recently new and additional aspects of bio-waste prevention have been introduced and adopted such as grass cycling, greenscaping,… Since then the program terminology has (HWMP 2008) changed from HC program into ‘kringlooptuinieren’ = ‘Closed Loop Gardening (CLG)’ program. HC is since only one aspect of the new CLG program. This program focuses citizens in urban and rural areas and provides the necessary tools and instruments to make CLG possible.
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General data
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Country |
Belgium |
|
RA/LA |
Flanders |
|
Population |
6.16 million (2008) |
|
Waste generated (kg/inh/y) |
waste 545 (2008) - biowaste 191 (2006) |
Waste prevention activity data
| Waste flow | Bio-waste : Food waste Bio-waste : Green waste |
| Strategy | Home and community composting |
| Scale | Roll out |
| Year(s) of tde project development | since 1992 |
| Participation target | 40% of Flanders population by 2010 |
| Waste reduction target | 35 kg/inh/y bio-waste in the residual waste fraction by 2012 |
| Participation rate | 2006 - 42% (exceeding the target) |
| Waste quantities reduced | 2006 - Between 20 to 80 kg/inh/y is prevented, more than 120.000 tons/y |
| Budget | / |
