Welcome to the Biofertiliser Certification Scheme website
The Biofertiliser Certification Scheme provides assurance to consumers, farmers, food producers and retailers that biofertiliser is safe and of good quality. Biofertiliser is the name adopted within the BCS for quality digestate which is the by-product from a biogas plant that uses anaerobic digestion to break down organic material left over from food and farm processes. By certifying the digestate against a rigorous standard, plant operators can provide farmers with the necessary confidence they need to apply it safely to their land. In this way they gain a valuable source of organic, carbon-free fertiliser.
Renewable Energy Assurance Ltd., a subsidiary of the Renewable Energy Association, administers the Scheme, and has appointed two independent Certifying Bodies to assess plants impartially against the standard. A Panel with an independent Chair oversees the Scheme and its rules, and ensures that it is working in the best interests of the users of biofertiliser, that it protects the environment and safeguards human, animal and plant health.
This website contains the rules, information and tools that plants will need to apply for certification under the Scheme.
PAS 110 workshop
WRAP, in association with REAL (Renewable Energy Association Ltd) and AFOR (Association for Organics Recycling) are running a workshop for AD operators/digestate producers to outline the requirements of the recently launched Quality Protocol for Anaerobic Digestate and the BSI PAS110 certification scheme.
The workshop will provide operators with the knowledge needed to implement BSI PAS110 and the ADQP, information on the Biofertiliser Certification Scheme, and a demonstration of the new on-line tool QP Manager for recording the application of quality digestate to land.
The workshop will be held on 22 February 2010 at the Orange studio in Birmingham.
The workshops are free to attend. To book a place, please click HERE.