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Green-tech proud to donate to Best Show Garden

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Green-tech proud to donate to Best Show Garden: Green-tech donated the PlantBox Green Wall system which makes up two walls within the Constructing Minds Show Garden designed by Carolyn Hardern and Jon Jarvis.

The biggest and officially ’the best’ show garden at RHS Tatton 2023 is the brainchild of Garden Designer Carolyn, and Jon the Construction Manager for landscape contractor Ashlea Ltd. The garden was awarded a silver medal.

Green-tech proud to donate to Best Show Garden

Green-tech proud to donate to Best Show Garden

Built by The Landscape Academy, the garden has been designed to raise awareness of mental health within the construction industry. Construction has the highest suicide rate of all industries, where an average of two workers take their own lives, each working day. The garden is designed as a calming space to help those struggling with their mental wellbeing.

The show garden was built using sponsorship donations and volunteers. Green-tech donated the Plantbox system to provide two 2.4metre high walls. The system creates a clever vertical garden, with a unique watering system that makes looking after plants easy.
The walls formed part of the Inner Sanctuary of the garden to offer a semi-enclosed private space that respects confidentiality and provides a degree of emotional security and a different environment whilst retaining the connection to nature. Seating and wildflowers assist with contemplation.

The overall design is based on the Japanese idealism of Shinrin Yoku and the benefits to our health through passive engagement to nature. With over 30 trees, 800 ferns and 100²m of wildflower turf, this is the biggest show garden. After the show, the garden will be moved to Clatterbridge Hospital, Wirral where it can be a place of tranquility for patients, visitors, and staff.

The garden has been designed to support and promote construction industry charities Band of Builders and Mates in Mind. Both Carolyn and Jon are fully committed to raising awareness of the mental health crisis within the construction sector and have worked on the design over a seven-month period.

Jon Comments, “This is a cause close to my heart and I appreciate Green-tech and all the sponsors that have enabled our vision to become a reality. Having Green-tech as national suppliers to the landscape world involved gave our cause traction and raised awareness in the market.”

Green-tech’s Andrea Questari manages the Ashlea account and adds, “This is such a worthwhile cause and great initiative to help raise awareness that we were delighted to help in any way we could. The Plant Box living wall system really does create a quick and easy instant green wall so was the perfect product for the inner sanctuary of the design.”

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Green-tech – an Official Drop-off Hub

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Green-tech – an Official Drop-off Hub: Tubex has expanded its Tree Shelter Collection and Recycling Programme by offering hubs around the UK where tree shelters can be dropped off to be recycled, completely free of charge.

The scheme is a joint initiative with charity Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (YDMT), which opened several hubs of its own in 2021.

Green-tech - an Official Drop-off Hub

Green-tech – an Official Drop-off Hub

There will be a total of 14 national hub locations. As well as YDMT’s sites, Tubex’s parent company Berry Global will provide five of the hub locations, while landscape supplier Green-tech is also supporting the scheme by offering their premises in North Yorkshire for shelter collection.

Green-tech’s Sales Director Richard Gill comments, “Tubex aim is to increase accessibility and proximity whilst limiting any unnecessary costs for end users, so that people are not discouraged to recycle shelters at end-of-life by having to fund and organise their disposal process. Green-tech is delighted to get involved and offer our support. We are the biggest distributor of tree protection products in the UK and feel we have a duty to offer practical solutions to removing plastic that has served its purpose, from the environment.”

Tubex will be covering all costs after the bags of used tree shelters are dropped at the hubs, including bailing, washing, recycling and re-pelletizing the material so that it can be used to create more shelters.

As well as all types of Tubex shelters all Polypropylene shelters that are manufactured by other brands can also be recycled at the hubs.  They can be identified by a small ‘PP’ symbol on the tree shelter.

Marketing & Product Development Director from Tubex James Taylor explains, “We are so pleased to be able to announce the launch of our recycling hubs with the support of YDMT and partners – since its inception, our plan has been to continually progress the Tubex Collection and Recycling Programme and offer the opportunity for our customers to recycle their shelters locally. Our hubs now provide a convenient way to ensure that shelters will be handled responsively at end-of-life, completely free of cost to the customer.”

For those who still want to use the original Tubex Collection and Recycling method where shelters are collected directly, Tubex will still be offering their standard dumpy bags for £39, which can hold 350-400 1.2m tree shelters with a minimum collection amount being six bags.

For more information on Tubex free tree shelter collection hubs email: https://tubex.com/sustainability/tree-shelter-collection-recycling-programme/

For further information or to order recycling bags call Green-tech on 01423 332100 or email tradecentre@green-tech.co.uk

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Green-tech receives independent endorsement

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Green-tech receives independent endorsement: For the 12th consecutive year Green-tech has been awarded ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 status.

ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 are two of ISO’s most well-known quality standards, implemented by over a million organisations throughout the world.

Every year Green-tech is assessed in order to retain its accreditation status. After initial certification companies have a surveillance audit in years 1 and 2. Year 3 is a more rigorous and in-depth recertification audit. This audit is similar in detail and intensity to the pre-certification audit.

This year was a recertification audit for Green-tech. This audit looks more deeply into the holistic and global implications of the implementation strategy. It reviews the whole of Green-tech’s processes and systems from beginning to end, as well as investigating their continued commitment to continual improvement.

Green-tech’s Estimating & Compliance Manager Alice Birch comments, “This year the ISO Assessor reviewed our warehousing and distribution facilities and reviewed the Green-tech processes from start to finish. Our soil production area was chosen, and every aspect of the process was checked. Our reporting processes were put under the microscope, along with HR and compliance.  Our environmental and quality manuals and objectives were reviewed to ensure these were measurable and finally how we track risk management in the business was audited. It was a rigorous process but as ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards are deeply embedded within our organisation and we have robust and structured systems in place we were able to easily demonstrate consistency and continuous improvement in our processes and service.”

ISO 9001 is a Quality Management System (QMS) which gives organisations a systematic approach for meeting customer objectives and providing consistent quality. ISO 14001 is an Environmental Management System (EMS) for measuring and improving environmental impact. It requires Green-tech to demonstrate that they have a sufficient environmental policy plan in place to manage their environmental impact.

The British Assessment Bureau is a leading Certification Body, that carries out the independent assessment to confirm and document that Green-tech runs its business in accordance with these rigorous standards.

Green-tech’s Business Development Director Mark Wood comments,

“We put a lot of effort into continuously maintaining and improving our quality and environmental impact standards. The audit is detailed and robust, so I’m delighted to have independent endorsement of Green-tech’s compliance.”

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New Product Specification Manager for Green-tech Specifier

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New Product Specification Manager for Green-tech Specifier: Seraya Sigsworth has recently joined Green-tech Specifier as their Product Specification Manager.

Seraya has worked in the water industry for the last seven years and has a wealth of experience and a thorough understanding of the importance of both blue and green infrastructure.

New Product Specification Manager for Green-tech Specifier

New Product Specification Manager for Green-tech Specifier

Green-tech Specifier is the specification team of leading landscape supplier Green-tech that focuses on technical specification and creates landscape solutions for Landscape Architects, Contractors, and Garden Designers. The Green-tech Specifier team help at the specification, estimating and drawing stages of their projects.

Business Development Director Mark Wood comments, “I am delighted that Seraya has joined the Green-tech Specifier team. Her primary role will be raising and developing the profile of our Urban tree planting portfolio and driving enquiries of our new TreeParker Urban tree planting cell system. Her previous experience has ensured her integration into the business has been smooth; she has fresh ideas and has hit the ground running and is already making an impact. Her past experience in water management and SuDS is already proving invaluable. We are working on new products to be launched over the coming months to complement our existing portfolio of irrigation products for this market. I am excited about the future and looking forward to seeing the positive impact that Seraya will make as we push further into the Urban greening industry and develop the opportunities available to us in the Blue/Green water management market.”

Seraya adds – “I’m really pleased to have joined Green-tech. My recent role saw me collaborating with engineers, landscape architects, local authorities, utilities, and policy makers to help design and consult on the challenging requirements of urban greening, sustainable development, and water management. I am passionate about urban greening and nature-based solutions in city areas to combat the effects of climate change, increase biodiversity and wellbeing in communities, as well as lowering flood risk via rainwater reuse/sustainable water management solutions. There is a great opportunity as part of the Green-tech Specifier team for me to really make a difference and I’m really looking forward to adding value to the team and expanding their existing customer offering.”

If you are interested in joining Green-tech and building a career within the landscaping industry, click the link below to check out their careers page with all current vacancies. https://www.green-tech.co.uk/about-us/careers

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Green-tech opens depot in Ireland

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Green-tech opens depot in Ireland: The UKs Leading landscape supplier Green-tech has announced the opening of an Irish depot in Derry, Ireland.

The UK landscaping supplier is owned by Origin Enterprises PLC and will be working with their business partner Origin NI and operating out of their premises in Derry.

Green-tech opens depot in Ireland

Green-tech opens depot in Ireland

Green-tech will be providing a next-day delivery service across the whole of Ireland on a wide range of professional landscaping essentials.

Green-tech’s Sales Director Richard Gill comments, “I am thrilled to open up our first depot in Ireland. It’s a strategic move for Green-tech which will support our ambitious future growth plans. We have traded in Ireland and Northern Ireland for many years with success, the time is now right to increase our reach and offer speed of delivery and levels of customer service provided to the rest of the UK. We have allocated several experienced members of the Green-tech team who will be dedicated to our Irish customers, enabling them to build relationships and guarantee consistency of service and customer care.”

Green-tech will be holding stock for all manner of landscaping, forestry and construction projects and will include.

  • Tree planting – Tree Stakes, Belting, Blocks and Weld Mesh
  • Urban tree planting – Tree anchor systems, Tree Parker tree planting cell system, tree grilles and Rootbarrier products
  • Mona Irrigation and Tree Irrigator bags
  • Seed – Grass Seed and John Chambers Wildflower seed
  • Ground protection – Grass Protector, Terram and Bodpave
  • Grounds Maintenance – Professional Fertilisers and Herbicides, Rite Edge, Rite L Edge and Ground Cover
  • Bark mulch and compost

Richard continues, “This is a really exciting time for us. It’s a big step and we already have our Derry warehouse stocked and we’re ready to start making deliveries. Our turnaround time is quick, often delivering within 24 hours. We are renowned for being able to send everything a company is likely to need for their landscaping, tree planting or ground stabilisation project in one delivery. We’d love to quote for your next landscaping, forestry or construction project so please get in touch with us.”

To download or request a printed free catalogue visit the website at www.green-tech.co.uk or speak to a member of the Irish Green-tech team on 01423 332 167.

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