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AS 5810-2010
[Pending Revision]Biodegradable plastics - Biodegradable plastics suitable for home composting
Specifies requirements and procedures to determine whether a plastic material is biodegradable in home composting conditions and provides the basis to allow labelling of materials or products made from plastics as ‘home compostable’, for use in home composting systems.
Published: 26/07/2010
Pages: 10
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Table of contents
Header
About this publication
Preface
1 Scope
2 Referenced documents∗
3 Definitions
4 General requirements and considerations
4.1 Equivalent form
4.2 Different components
4.3 Conditions prior to entering a home composting process
5 Assessment
5.1 Designation
5.2 Assessment
5.3 Characterization
5.3.1 General
5.3.2 Criteria
5.4 Biodegradability
5.4.1 General
5.4.2 Aerobic biodegradability
5.4.2.1 Criteria
5.4.2.2 Test method
5.5 Disintegration
5.5.1 General
5.5.2 Criteria
5.5.3 Test method
5.6 Compost quality
5.6.1 General
5.6.2 Negative effect
5.6.2.1 Criteria
5.6.2.2 Test method
5.6.2.3 Report
5.6.3 Ecotoxicity
5.6.3.1 General
5.6.3.2 Criteria
5.6.3.3 Test method
5.6.3.3.1 General
5.6.3.3.2 Reference substrate
5.6.3.3.3 Preparation of samples
5.6.3.3.4 Procedure
5.6.3.3.5 Calculation and comparison of results
6 Recording of assessment outcome
6.1 Check list
6.2 Supporting documentation
7 Organization of a test scheme
Appendix A
Appendix B
Cited references in this standard
ASTM E1676
Standard guide for conducting laboratory soil toxicity or bioaccumulation tests with the Lumbricid Earthworm Eisenia fetida and the Enchytraeid Potworm Enchytraeusalbidus
[Current]
Plastics - Determination of the degree of disintegration of plastic materials under composting conditions in a laboratory-scale test
[Current]
Determination of the ultimate aerobic biodegradability of plastic materials in an aqueous medium - Method by measuring the oxygen demand in a closed respirometer
[Current]
Water quality - Preparation and treatment of poorly water-soluble organic compounds for the subsequent evaluation of their biodegradability in an aqueous medium
[Withdrawn]
Plastic materials — Determination of the ultimate aerobic biodegradability and disintegration under controlled composting conditions — Method by analysis of evolved carbon dioxide
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