LANDSCAPE SERVICES
MODFIORM INTRODUCES ECO-EXPERT TO THE LANDSCAPE SECTOR WHAT IS ECO-EXPERT Modiform constantly strives to produce packaging and transport products for horticulture that are sustainable and environmentally friendly. We realise that sometimes our plastic products won’t come back to us or go for recycling somewhere else. For instance, the used pots of landscapers are often landfilled or put into kerbside bins where they don’t get recycled. Therefore Modiform have looked into other materials and other markets to see what can be used in these types of situations. After the ‘research’ years Modiform have created a new product range called ‘EcoExpert’. This product range is made from paper fibre instead of plastic. The paper used is 100% recycled (waste from production of cardboard boxes) and comes from FSC sources. Even the used natural wax is completely biodegradable.
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The EcoExpert’s products can easily be recycled through the standard household or commercial cardboard recycling system. Even better for the landscape industry, not only can it be recycled but it can be planted straight into the ground. And if it finds its way into the natural environment it will degrade within a year.
BENEFITS OF ECO-EXPERT EcoExpert transport trays have a great benefit for retailers and the environment. Plants delivered in plastic trays have to be separated from the usual cardboard secondary packaging that retailers have to deal with. With the EcoExpert trays retailers can treat them as they would any cardboard box and throw it in the standard cardboard recycling system. This saves retailers time and money.
EcoExpert pots have a great benefit for retailers, consumers, landscapers and the environment. Currently landscapers have to squeeze the plant carefully out of the plastic pot, and after planting the plants they are left with many plastic plant pots to do something with. Growers don’t want to take them back and councils won’t recycled them. Landscapers end up paying to dispose of the pots commercially. EcoExpert pots are different: they can be planted with the plant into the ground, where they will degrade and the roots will break through. This saves landscapers time and money on site and contributes to reducing the plastic waste from our sector. Why not ask your grower or plant supplier to provide your plants in EcoExpert pots?
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