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Island Landscape Nursery has provided estimates of A small nursery area nurtures and maintains outdoor
approximately 20,000 plastic potting bags used to potted soil plants that are not suitable for the
transport plants, as shown in Figure 10. These bags Hydroculture system, as shown in Figure 12. These
weigh about 100g each and translate to roughly 2,000 plants require regular watering, unlike those planted in
kg of plastic waste. At an estimated rate of 6 kg CO per expanded clay.
2
kg of plastic, this translates to 12,000 kg of CO emission
2
annually. Plastic potting bags being disposed of after
use are as shown in Figure 9.

Figure 11: Water collection pond.

Figure 10: Plastic potting bags
for planting and transporting.

Good Environmental Practices

One of the most commendable good environmental
practices of Island Landscape Nursery is the capture of
rainwater and its subsequent use for watering plants.
Island Landscape Nursery has indicated that its drainage
network can capture rainwater, which is then channelled
to the collection pond, as shown in Figure 11.

This water is mixed with the fertilizer and pesticides
before being pumped to the rooting acclimatization
pools. The nutrient-enriched water is level-controlled at Figure 12: Potted Soil Plants not suitable for
each pool, and the run-off drains through the drainage Hydroculture.
system around the nursery and back into the collection
pond. This water flow cycle is continuously operated
to prevent stagnant water accumulation using an
electrically driven pump & filtration system.

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