Company Ethos
From the outset, Gardening for Wildlife has always had an ethos of inclusivity, not just to people and their communities, but to all types of plants and all living creatures. The company sought to provide any type of grower with a product range that was totally safe to nature, not just to humans, their crops and their pets, but to all wildlife in all its aspects.
Importantly this wildlife needs to include the very pests that the products are seeking to keep away from the plants, as they can still play an important role in the natural existing food chains.
So, by applying the Grazers products we are in effect ‘helping our plants to help themselves’, giving them the strength to flourish. At the same time, we are also leaving their pests healthy for consumption by their own natural predators, such as birds, hedgehogs and amphibians. In turn, the safer environment attracts more wildlife to the area, which will eat yet more pests.
Plastic Policy
Gardening for Wildlife manufactures an eco-friendly product range for plant growers.
We also take a strongly proactive approach to all environmental aspects of production and supply, ensuring we reduce our plastic and carbon footprint wherever possible.
Amongst other components of the manufacturing and supply processes, we ensure that Gardening for Wildlife follows a robust policy on plastic usage, with our core garden range of products using 100% recycled plastic…
The whole range of Gardening for Wildlife products are supplied in both recyclable and recycled plastic containers:
Recyclable High Density Polyethylene
Post Consumer Recycled resin
Using PCR resin, a HDPE plastic is used for all product containers which can either be washed out and re-used, or readily recycled with other commonly recycled items, such as milk containers.
Gardening for Wildlife promotes its bottles of concentrate in the market, over and above the diluted RTU hand sprayers, so customers can either refill the Grazers RTU or make use of their own spray containers.
These bottles of concentrate are not only the most cost effective for our customers but also use far less plastic per unit of product and also require less packaging and fuel to transport.
Spray triggers in the Gardening for Wildlife Ready-to-Use (RTU) bottles are manufactured to a high specification, enabling the most efficient use of product (including upside down) and re-usable numerous times
No plastic bubble wrap or plastic cushioning is used to ship Gardening for Wildlife products to our customers, only recycled paper and cardboard cartons, which are all recyclable again.
Gardening for Wildlife recycles its own plastic waste eg pallet wrap, containers, sacks etc via a local farm waste plastic recycling company Solway Recycling: www.solwayrecycling.co.uk
Unless exceptional circumstances, plastic containers and product packaging is sourced from the most local suppliers to Gardening for Wildlife’s production site.
Gardening for Wildlife is currently looking into a plastics recycling scheme to encourage users not to discard their old, re-usable plastic containers from Grazers and instead return them into a circular economy.
Finally, Gardening for Wildlife is always striving to do more to improve the environment in its range of products and its manufacturing processes, so we always welcome further ideas and feedback. Contact us.
