Den Ouden Organic and municipality Meijerstad are joining their forces in the transition to making potting soil and substrates more sustainable. While the municipality will collect the prunings from private individuals in the outlying areas in March 2023, Den Ouden will process this into substrate raw material that serves as a peat substitute for potting soil companies. With that we deliver, along with the municipality and the residents, a contrabution to a lower CO2-footprint of potting soil and Substrates.
Den Ouden takes the municipal prunings and processes them at its production site De Vlagheide in Schijndel until the prunings are compost with the RHP- label. RHP-label is a natural,100% organic and circular substrate raw material. Potting soil companies use the RHP compost as a peat substitute in potting soil, among other things. In addition,RHP compost is a raw material for your own soil substrates for use in public spaces.
Covenant on the Environmental Impact of Potting Soil and Substrates
The BVOR has signed an argeement for the accelerated reduction of the environmental impact of potting soil and substrates.The goal is to use significantly less peat is potting soil and substrates , and also to double the use of compost to 600.000m3. As member and director of the BVOR is Den Ouden a driving force in the transistion to making potting soil and substrates more sustainable.
About Den Ouden Organic
Den Ouden Organic, a division of family business Den Ouden, supports municipality's with achieving their climate goals. We consider municipal green waste streams as valuable reusable raw materials instead of waste. If a raw material that, thanks to Den Ouden Organic, contributes to more than 50,000 tonnes of CO2 reduction every year, to a circular economy and to climate impact. We take in green waste streams such as wood, grass and leaves and process them at thirteen production location in the Netherlands into circular solutions for contractors in public spaces, arable and horticultural workers, potting soil companies, gardeners and companies active in the manufacturing industry
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