Fast Facts
Trees help the planet in many ways:
- By absorbing CO2 (Carbon Dioxide), trees help reduce “greenhouse gases” which cause Global Warming. In one year, a single tree can absorb as much carbon as is produced by a car driven 26,000 miles.
- Trees produce oxygen – 2 mature trees provide enough oxygen for a family of four.
- The shade from trees cools the air around them and the Earth's temperature.
- Well placed trees provide shade and protection, helping to cut costs and consumption by decreasing air conditioning by 10-15% & reducing heating as much as 4-22%.
- Tree roots absorb water run-off pollutants before the water reaches streams and lakes.
Planting in coir is a more sustainable alternative to peat moss.
- The planet needs its peat bogs because they function as ecosystems that help control global warming by storing CO2 while also storing and filtering 10% of the world’s fresh water.
- It can take up to 220 years to grow back what has been “harvested” in a peat bog in one year though some efforts are being used to restore peat bogs.
- Coir (pronounced “koi-er”) is the spent rind of a coconut and can be refined to produce a highly effective peat-moss replacement.
- Coir works like thousands of mini natural sponges to absorb water and release it to plants as they need it. ·
- Coir is hyper-renewable (a healthy coconut tree produces up to one batch per month).
- Coir retains more water than peat moss, significantly reducing watering requirements. – you water less.
- Coir is fast gaining international notoriety for its eco-friendly horticultural applications. American rose growers are raving about it and Dutch farmers have been using it with great success for years.
- Coir is 100% organic and pH neutral.
Priced at less than 3 dollars, the Healthy Planet Tree Planting Kit™ is 100% complete – you just
add water.
The kit contains:
- Douglas Fir Tree seeds
- Biodegradable QuickStart ™Coir Planting Pellet and biodegradable QuickStart ™Coir Pot
- Complete Instructions
- Tree Facts for the whole family.
- !00% Guarantee
- Minimalist biodegradable packaging
- Web url for registering your planted tree
And a portion of each sale supports the World Wildlife Fund Canada.
PlantBest’s business is both pro green and pro developing world economy
- PlantBest’s primary manufacturing material is coir (the spent rind of coconuts, pronounced “koi’er”) which is a hyper renewal resource in Vietnam.
- In Vietnam, PlantBest pays above average wages by ensuring that most value added activities can be kept in the countryside.
- The entire harvesting, manufacturing and packaging of most PlantBest products is in a remote region of Vietnam.
- And Vietnamese companies are engaged, supported and trained to provide marketing design services, again to keep as much of the value flow and skills transfer within the developing world.
For more information about PlantBest™Healthy Planet Tree Planting Kit™ or coir, please contact
Elizabeth Huggins (416) 421 0074 .