Reducing the use of plastic in woodland and amenity planting
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What is the Forest Plastics Working Group?
The Forest Plastics Working Group brings together partners to focus on the reduction in single use and temporary use plastics in tree and woodland establishment. It includes a comprehensive range of sector representatives.
The FPWG share the aim that the increase in tree planting should not result in an increase in plastics in the environment.
The Group’s goal is to achieve the reduction or replacement of single use plastics in woodland creation and amenity planting with sustainable silvicultural methods and alternatives. We recognise this is a challenge.
Reducing the use of plastic in woodland and amenity planting.
Using a collaborative approach to look at concerns and problems with the use and management of plastic and associated waste and compliance. The Group is working with partners to develop responses, solutions and remedial actions, which will be disseminated throughout the forestry sector and to interested stakeholders.
View the Forest Plastics Working Group’s ‘Reducing the use of plastic in woodland and amenity planting’ resource.
“Trees are life. They contain life, they protect life and they improve life - economically, culturally and of course environmentally. It’s utterly hypocritical therefore to extol the multitude virtues gained by planting trees in our landscapes, only to encase them in plastic tubes, when we are fully aware of the pollution and problems created by using such tube.”
Dr Alan Simson, Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Forestry Leeds Beckett University, and Trustee of the Community Forest Trust.
Together, lets advocate and facilitate good practice around use of plastic in forestry and waste compliance.
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