LANDSCAPING SERVICES
MODIFORM INTRODUCES
ECOEXPERT 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. The EcoExpert
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.
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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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