Therefore the value of compost &digestate as soil conditioners to counteract these carbon losses is obvious. Three specificbenefits that are considered in this analysis are:
Compost stores carbon in the soil,
Nitrogen contained in compost is an organic fertiliser,
Compost can be applied instead of peat or straw as a soil
conditioner in order to improve the soil structure, thus
avoiding fossil emissions from the use of peat
In the following, we describe the methodologies used to quan-tify these benefits.