Our mission
To promote, communicate and research the composting process as an organic waste sustainable management practice for the benefit of people and their environment, being a space for integration and linking of public and private institutions and different social actors related to the subject.
Our objectives
Communication and training
Communicate and train specialists and the general public on the environmental, social and economic benefits of reducing, reusing and recycling organic waste.
Research, innovation and development
Encourage research, development and productive innovation in composting technologies and other treatments related to waste management.
Regulations, guidelines and good practice guides
Generate basic information to support the development of regulations and good practice guides for composting. Establish guidelines on criteria and methodologies for the composting process, the quality and use of compost. Provide a seal of quality and certification of composting processes and products.
Our history
In 2016, a group of professionals, researchers and entrepreneurs from different regions of Argentina started to organize an Association devoted to composting activities, obtaining Legal Entity in 2020.
ASACOMP is dedicated to training, disseminating and promoting research and technological innovation on composting, its methods, regulations, quality criteria and good practices. Our Association actively organises symposiums and courses, and gives advice in the creation of regulations on composting and organic waste management.
At present, we have various collaborators such as INTA, INTI, CONICET, National Universities of Río Negro (UNRN), Córdoba (UNC), Comahue (UNCOMA), the Center of the Province of Buenos Aires (UNICEN), Buenos Aires (UBA), Secretariat of Public Works of the Nation, Ministry of Environment of the Province of Buenos Aires, Obras Sanitarias Mar del Plata (OSSE), AySA, Biofertyl SRL, Ecomanagement, Green Heads Argentina, El Pato, Deisa SA, Hidrocomp, Orgánicos de Argentina, Hi-Soil, Soila+, among others. Recently, the BIOMA Institute of China, the Community of Practice on the reduction of methane emissions from organic sources in Latin America and the Caribbean (MetLAC), and the NGO Delterra have joined us.