Top UK waste management companies—Envar and Biffa—have expressed support for the Compostable Materials Certification Scheme (CMCS), recognising its value in promoting the circular economy, compostable alternatives to conventional plastics, diverting biowaste from landfill, and returning biological matter to the soil...
Posted: 23 April, 2025
The Compostable Materials Certification Scheme (CMCS) announces the first certified home compostable product. The product is manufactured by Sinclair International Limited (Sinclair), now the second participant of CMCS.Certification of Sinclair’s fruit labels in line with the NF T51-800 standard shows they are suitable for home composting...
Posted: 26 February, 2025
We have today published a new document for producers titled ‘CMCS Position on Technical Requirements’. This document accompanies the scheme rules, providing clarification on specific requirements in the underlying standards (BS EN 13432:2000, BS EN 14995:2006, AS 5810:2010, and NF T 51-800:2015-11)...
Posted: 28 August, 2024
We have today uploaded two new application forms to our website for home compostable and industrially compostable certification, which can be found here...
Posted: 28 August, 2024
The Compostable Materials Certification Scheme (CMCS) announces the first certified product, manufactured by KOBAYASHI Healthcare Europe Ltd (Kobayashi) who is the first participant of CMCS.Kobayashi produces plastic free lens cleaning wipes, a product which has been certified industrially compostable, showing it is suitable for industrial/commercial composting in line with BS EN 13432...
Posted: 1 August, 2024
We have recently issued two updated versions of the 'REAL Industrially Compostable Products' and 'REAL Home Compostable Products' scheme rules. The key changes from the previous versions are:The addition of certifiable product types e.g...
Posted: 26 July, 2024
We have today published a new guidance document for producers around the requirements for the use of the certification marks. This guidance aligns with the requirements in the updated versions of the scheme rules (version 4).It sets out the rules around the general use of the mark, requirements when printing on the product or external packaging, and the use of the mark in advertising...
Posted: 26 July, 2024
REAL administers both the CMCS and the Compost Certification Scheme (CCS), a quality assurance and end-of-waste scheme for compost produced on an industrial scale in the UK. Through CCS, REAL collects data on whether certified compost producers accept independently certified compostable liners and/or compostable packaging...
Posted: 10 May, 2024
Renewable Energy Assurance Ltd (REAL) announces the recent appointment of TÜV AUSTRIA to conduct certification assessments for the Compostable Materials Certification Scheme (CMCS), the second certification body to be appointed...
Posted: 10 January, 2024
We have recently uploaded two new application forms to our website for home compostable and industrially compostable certification, which can be found here.The forms reflect the development of the scheme whereby producers can now choose between two certification bodies...
Posted: 9 January, 2024
If you would like to join the Compostable Materials Certification Scheme, read our section on how to join.