What does it mean to be certfied as organic?
I have just read that BioGro has certified Natures Flame wood pellet ash as organic.
“This certification means buyers can be confident the ash from our pellet fires can be used as a fertiliser for organic gardens,”
It goes on to say:
"The wood pellets are made at plants in Rotorua and Rolleston, near Christchurch, from untreated wood residues such as sawdust from sawmills and furniture manufacturers and recycled freight pallets and other waste timber that has been chipped."
For me, if something is certified as organic, then from start to finish it has to be organic. I very much doubt that NZ forests are organic...or are they? Surely wood waste from freight pallets and other furniture manufacturers wouldn't be organic either...
Burning something that isn't organic doesn't then make the residue organic surely. Wouldn't that mean that firewood ash is organic?
Is this making a mockery of the Organic certficiation process?