0 decaying material of plants, unwanted food, etc., added to dirt to improve the growth of new plants -- compost
1 rotting vegetable matter etc used as fertilizer -- abono orgánico
(also adjective) a compost heap.
I would like to say that 30% of such waste can be used for making compost.
Every effort must be made to process biodegradable waste into compost and biogas, rather than landfilling or incineration.
The rapporteur is right when she says that it is much kinder to the environment to produce compost and biogas from biodegradable waste than to dump it or incinerate it.
This can produce gas at landfill sites, and in fact this kind of waste should be sorted and some of it composted.
