1、Designation:D841022Standard Specification forEvaluation of Cellulosic-Fiber-Based Packaging Materialsand Products for Compostability in Municipal or IndustrialAerobic Composting Facilities1This standard is issued under the fixed designation D8410;the number immediately following the designation indi
2、cates the year oforiginal adoption or,in the case of revision,the year of last revision.A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval.Asuperscript epsilon()indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.1.Scope1.1 This specification covers cellulosic-fiber-based
3、packag-ing materials and products associated with food,landscapewaste,and other compost feedstocks,which are intended to becomposted under aerobic conditions in municipal and indus-trial composting facilities,where thermophilic temperaturesare achieved.1.2 This specification covers cellulosic-based
4、uncoated andcoated packaging materials and products and covers wholepackaging products.Products covered in this specificationinclude cellulosic fiber-based products produced from cellu-losic pulp,corrugated materials,containerboard,paper,paperboard,and molded fiber.1.3 This specification excludes en
5、d items where thermoplas-tic polymer is laminated or extruded to cellulosic substrates.1.4 This specification is intended to establish the require-ments for labeling cellulosic-fiber-based packaging materialsand products as“compostable in aerobic municipal and indus-trial composting facilities”in ac
6、cordance with the guidelinesissued by the Federal Trade Commission,2provided the labelincludes proper qualifications as to the availability of suchfacilities.1.5 The properties in this specification are those required todetermine if packaging materials and products will compostsatisfactorily in larg
7、e-scale aerobic municipal or industrialcomposting where maximum throughput is a high priority andwhere intermediate stages of biodegradation must not beapparent to the end user for aesthetic reasons.1.6 This specification is technically equivalent to ISO18606.1.7.1.7 The values stated in SI units ar
8、e to be regarded asstandard.No other units of measurement are included in thisstandard.1.8 This standard does not purport to address all of thesafety concerns,if any,associated with its use.It is theresponsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro-priate safety,health,and environmental
9、 practices and deter-mine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.1.9 This international standard was developed in accor-dance with internationally recognized principles on standard-ization established in the Decision on Principles for theDevelopment of International Standards,Guide
10、s and Recom-mendations issued by the World Trade Organization TechnicalBarriers to Trade(TBT)Committee.2.Referenced Documents2.1 ASTM Standards:3D996 Terminology of Packaging and Distribution Environ-mentsD1968 Terminology Relating to Paper and Paper ProductsD5338 Test Method for Determining Aerobic
11、 Biodegrada-tion of Plastic Materials Under Controlled CompostingConditions,Incorporating Thermophilic TemperaturesD6866 Test Methods for Determining the Biobased Contentof Solid,Liquid,and Gaseous Samples Using Radiocar-bon Analysis2.2 Organization for Economic Development(OECD)Stan-dard:4OECD Guid
12、eline 208 Terrestrial Plants,Growth Test2.3 European Standards(EN):5EN 13432 Packaging-Requirements for Packaging Recover-able through Composting and Biodegradation-Test1This specification is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee D10 onPackaging and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee D1
13、0.19 on Sustainability&Recycling.Current edition approved Nov.1,2022.Published November 2022.Originallyapproved in 2021.Last previous edition approved in 2021 as D8410 21.DOI:10.1520/D8410-22.2Guidelines for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims,Federal TradeCommission,Washington,DC,1992.3For re
14、ferenced ASTM standards,visit the ASTM website,www.astm.org,orcontact ASTM Customer Service at serviceastm.org.For Annual Book of ASTMStandards volume information,refer to the standards Document Summary page onthe ASTM website.4Available from Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development(OEC
15、D),2 rue Andr Pascal,F-75775,Paris Cedex 16,France,http:/www.oecd.org.5Available from American National Standards Institute(ANSI),25 W.43rd St.,4th Floor,New York,NY 10036,http:/www.ansi.org.Copyright ASTM International,100 Barr Harbor Drive,PO Box C700,West Conshohocken,PA 19428-2959.United StatesT
16、his international standard was developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles on standardization established in the Decision on Principles for theDevelopment of International Standards,Guides and Recommendations issued by the World Trade Organization Technical Barriers to Trade(TBT)Committee.1Scheme and Evaluation Criteria for the Final Acceptanceof Packaging2.4 ISO Standards:5ISO 14855 Evaluation of the ultimate aerobic biodegradabil-ity and disintegration of plastics under
