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COMPOST Under control


The daunting bureaucratic mountain of rules and regulations is often a source of frustration for the Dutch business sector. Composters are also forced to commit a lot of time and money to observing the legislation and directives, and opening their doors for audits. Despite these challenges,


Hooymans Compost also sees the benefits. By Roel Dreve


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ne article is obvious too short to describe the complex regulations today’s compost producers must comply with, so our interview with Jan and Petra Hooymans and sales manager Piet Lempens at Hooymans Compost, is limited to odour management and transporting mushroom compost. In the Netherlands, the former is a local issue that is actually no longer relevant. The latter, however, is a trending topic, as Dutch and Belgian composters have a far more interna- tional operating range today and ship their living material all over the world.


Less nuisance, more control Jan has witnessed the evolution of his company from a local compost supplier into an internatio- nally operating enterprise, and experienced the increased professionalism and rising legislative pressure. “In the past, Hooymans supplied compost made in a few tunnels to local mushroom growers. Our first ‘foreign’ customer was in West Flanders over the border in Belgium, and in 1990, we only had two customers outside the Bommelerwaard region. You needed a weigh docket for transport at the time, for your own trailer, but there was hardly any other form of regulation of the logistic process. Legislation to mitigate odour nuisance was still in its early stages then. And as only a relatively small amount of compost was kept outside, there were no complaints initially. But as the volume of compost rose, so did the flurry of complaints about bad smells. This resulted in tight legisla- tion designed to enforce compliance with the strict odour emission standards (which Hooy- mans fully understands). As composters in the Netherlands quickly switched to indoor compos- ting, the resulting odours soon became history. Control took the form of ammonia scrubbers,


14 MUSHROOM BUSINESS


Jan Hooymans with a compostblock (Heirloom) in an exportcontainer.


Biofi lter at Hooymans Compost. Odour nuisance is something of the past.


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