Statistik for hjemmekompostering

Summary

"Statistics on home composting for 1999" contains estimates on the number of municipal schemes for home composting, the number of households in such schemes and the amount of organic refuse which is home composted through these schemes.

In 1999:
91 municipalities advised that they had schemes for home composting which cover a total of 238,000 households.
202,000 of these households are estimated to participate actively in a scheme for home composting, whereas 36,000 households are estimated not to participate in such schemes.
the participating households are estimated to compost an average of 2.7 kg per household per week.
It is estimated that 28,400 tons of vegetable refuse is being home composted through such schemes.