NF T51-800 Plastics - Specifications Test for Plastics Suitable for Home Fertilization

EUROLAB, with its state-of-the-art accredited laboratories and expert team, provides precise and fast testing services within the scope of NF T51-800 testing. The NF T51-800 standard, a French standard, describes procedures and requirements for plastic products suitable for home composting. Under this standard, plastic products are considered suitable for home composting only if all their components meet the requirements.

The NF T51-800 standard addresses these four aspects of plastics suitable for home composting:

• biodegradation;
• Decomposition during composting;
• Negative effects on the biological process;
• Negative effects on the quality of the resulting compost, including the availability of highly regulated elements.

This standard also provides a basis for labeling plastic products suitable for home composting.

This standard does not provide information on requirements for biodegradability of plastics found in the environment as garbage.

This standard is based on European standards EN 13432 and EN 14995, which set requirements for packaging or plastics recovered through aerobic composting in domestic or industrial biological waste treatment plants, and ISO 18606 and ISO 17088 standards published by the International Standards Organization (ISO).

The composition and volume of waste treated by domestic composting differs from waste treated by industrial composting. In this context, the duration of biodegradation and degradation tests should be adapted to home composting practices. The volume of waste contained in a domestic compost pile is relatively small, the temperature in the pile is lower and less stable than in an industrial composting environment. As a result, home composting is a slower process than industrial composting.

EUROLAB assists manufacturers with NF T51-800 test compliance. Our test experts, with their professional working mission and principles, provide you, our manufacturers and suppliers, the best service and controlled testing process in our laboratories. Thanks to these services, businesses receive more effective, high-performance and quality testing services and provide safe, fast and uninterrupted service to their customers.