Easygrow
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The document outlines B&Q's new Easy Grow bedding plants initiative to reduce peat usage, improve quality and shelf life, and make gardening easier for customers. Key aspects of the initiative include using sustainable coir from certified plantations for the plant medium in tea bags, utilizing 100% recycled PET trays, and reducing packaging size and volume for transportation. The initiative aims to cut landfill waste and use of resources.
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- 1. 1 Easy Grow – New bedding plants initiative Tim Clapp B&Q
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- 7. 7 Objectives • Reduction in Peat usage • 100% Recycle • Improve quality and shelf life • Make it easier for the customer • Reduction in transport
- 8. 8 Coir Production • 100 Coconut Plantations • 46 Fibre Mills • 3 Processing Facilities • Environmental Management System Standard – ISO 14001:2004 • Occupational Health and Safety Management System Standard (OHSAS 18001:2007) • Quality Management System Standard – ISO 9001:2008 • RHP quality mark by the European Certification Institute for the Agricultural Sector (ECAS B.V. – European Certification for Agricultural Sector) • B&Q CSR Verification
- 9. 9 Tea Bag Production • The coir is held in place by BioWeb made from (PLA). It is a renewable and sustainable biopolymer made from plant sugars and is biodegradable and compostable and is used for teabags. Its able to decompose in the presence of micro organisms by 90% in 6 months. • Coir is quick and easy to rehydrate aided by a percentage of water getting “stuck” to the coir.
- 10. 10 Tray Production •100% RPET – the tray is made from recycled fizzy drink bottles • tray can go directly into customers recycling bins • no landfill
- 11. 11 Benefits •over 25% reduction in pack size from polystyrene to plastic. •over 50% reduction in volume of packaging. •customer can recycle empty tray into their recycle bin. •teabag and plant is green waste suitable for brown bin, composting etc. •significantly reduced landfill. •improved water rehydration and tolerance. •grown in peat free sustainable coir. •reduced water required.
- 12. 12 Benefits •45 more on a trolley. •> 25% more on a vehicle, less equipment, less journeys. •> 25% more space freed up in plant merchandising. •> 25% more in customer trolleys. •no broken polystyrene in store.
- 13. 13 Awards
- 14. Questions? SPONSORED BY SILVER PARTNERS: ORGANISED BY: BRONZE PARTNERS: