Organic Matter definition

Organic Matter means perspiration, urine, saliva, suntan oil, cosmetics, lotions, dead skin, and similar debris introduced to water by users and the environment.
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Organic Matter means organic matter having a carbon content expressed as equivalent methane;
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Organic Matter means materials that are suitable for composting under this bylaw unless eXcluded by municipal, Provincial or Federal enactments or orders that prohibit or restrict composting or composting methods.
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Examples of Organic Matter in a sentence

  • Standard Test Methods for Moisture, Ash, and Organic Matter of Peat and Other Organic Soils.

  • Standard Practice for Measuring Volatile Organic Matter in Water by Aqueous-Injection Gas Chromatography, IBR approved for §60.564(j).

  • Legend: RP = Rock phosphate; NG = Natural Gas; OI = Oil; EN = Energy; WT = Water; SQ = Soil Quality; NR = Nutrients recovered; AM= Ammonia (air); N2O = Nitrous oxide (air); CH4 = Methane (air); NO3 = Nitrate (water); P = Phosphorus; PM = Particulate matter; CFP = Carbon Footprint; SOM = Effective Soil Organic Matter; REP = Renewable energy production.

  • T.H., C.T. Miller, and P.C. Singer (2006) Modeling Macrotransport and Mi- crotransport for Removal of Natural Organic Matter by Anion Exchange, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, 12–17 November 2006.

  • Characterization of Natural Organic Matter and Its Relationship to Treatability.


More Definitions of Organic Matter

Organic Matter means the remains, residues, or waste products of any organism.
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Organic Matter means that substance remaining after removal of the moisture and total ash fractions from partially humified matter of animal or vegetable origin; (matière organique)
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Organic Matter means dung, farmyard manure, compost, flax waste, grass or other vegetable matter in process of decomposition.
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Organic Matter means those materials set out in OMRR Schedule 12 that are suitable for composting into Class A Compost or Class B Compost. These materials include animal bedding, biosolids, brewery and winery waste, domestic septic tank sludge, fish wastes, human food waste, hatchery waste, manure, milk processing waste, fruit, and vegetable material from processing plants, poultry carcasses, red-meat waste, untreated and unprocessed wood residuals, whey, yard waste.
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Organic Matter means material derived from plant or animal origin. The material may be at different stages of decomposition. Organic matter may include soil and other ingredients if they are shown to be beneficial to the compost process.
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Organic Matter means husk, bran fragments, chaff, stems, straw and grains other than rice;
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Organic Matter means the remains, residues, or waste products of any organism. (bl) “Pest” means any of the following that is, or is liable to become, dangerous or detrimental to the agricultural or nonagricultural environment of the state: (1) Any insect, predatory animal, rodent, nematode, or weed; and (2) Any form of terrestrial,
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