To emphasise our commitment to ethical, eco-friendly and organic best practice,
Treadlight has laid down below it’s Green Policy guidelines.
Plant Selection.
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To source plants as locally as possible from ethical, organic and sustainable origins
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To use native planting wherever possible, particularly in areas where the local flora is in decline
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To reduce valuable water resources by choosing plants, trees and shrubs that are as hardy and draught tolerant as possible
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To reduce energy expended in heating and lighting by using hardy plants in optimal conditions and avoid reliance on heated greenhousing or polytunnels.
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Hard landscape selection.
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To utilise hard landscaping materials from sources as local as possible, using either recycled materials ,or those from well managed, sustainable sources whilst giving due regard to embedded energy in manufacture.
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Growing media selection
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To use home produced fertilisers and composts wherever possible
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If not available, to import only organic and peat free growing media
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Chemicals
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In line with organic best practice, we undertake not to use any chemicals such as pesticides, fungicides or herbicides on our plants or other materials.
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Administration
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We will both recycle and use recycled paper in our communications
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We will keep our pricing structure simple and transparent to avoid duplication of paperwork and avoid confusion.
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We will aim to extend our links with organisations of a similar ethos and keep abreast of new developments in the field.
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Other
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We will personally vet the sources of all our products to ensure that fair, non-exploitative and organic conditions prevail
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We will maximise biodiversity in our designs by increasing the number of eco-systems available
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To reduce our carbon footprint, we undertake to cut carbon emissions by reducing travel and seeing clients that are local within a 50 mile radius only when necessary.
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We aim to discourage the use of energy sapping power tools by using appropriate design and ensuring subcontractors are aware of our conditions.
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