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Compost definition

Compost means the safe and stable product of controlled biologic decomposition of organic materials that is beneficial to plant growth.
Compost means solid particulate material that is the result of composting, which has been sanitised and stabilised, and which confers beneficial effects when added to soil, used as a component of growing media or used in another way in conjunction with plants.
Compost means a biologically stable material derived from the composting process.

Examples of Compost in a sentence

  • Compost bins, glasshouses, poly tunnels and fruit cages are included within the cultivated area, as are ornamental flower crops.


More Definitions of Compost

Compost means a material derived primarily or entirely from biological
Compost means the product resulting from the controlled biological decomposition of organic solid wastes that are source separated from the municipal solid waste stream or which are separated at a centralized facility or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 17896.2(a)(4).
Compost means solid waste which has undergone biological decomposition of organic matter, been disinfected using composting or similar technologies, been stabilized to a degree which is potentially beneficial to plant growth and which is approved for use or sale as a soil amendment, artificial topsoil, growing medium amendment, or other similar uses;
Compost means stabilised, homogenous, fully decomposed material of animal or plant origin to which no plant nutrients have been added and that is free of substances or elements that could be harmful to human beings, animals, plants or the environment;
Compost means the humus-like product of the process of composting waste.
Compost means the product of a managed process through which microorganisms break down plant and animal materials into more available forms suitable for application to the soil.
Compost means the controlled biological decomposition of organic material or the product