Source Separated Organics

Basics

• A system where the customer separates all compostable matter from their MSW stream ahead of time
• Allows for large scale Composting and/or Anaerobic Digestion of a large portion of a MSW stream
• Can be abbreviated as SSO (and is in some papers etc), however this can be easily confused with Single Sign On
• Aided by usage of anaerobically digestable/compostable bags (PLA or Paper typically?)

Internal Links

• Source Separated Recycling

External Links

• The Wikipedia Page on Source Seperated Organics
• A 2012 Biocycle.net Article titled "Managing Compostable Bags At Anaerobic Digestion Plants"
• A 2013 Biocycle.net Article titled "Anaerobic Digestion Of Compostable Bags"
• A PDF Entitled "Biodegradable and compostable bioplastic bags in anaerobic digestion"