Greentech and Competitors: Biodegradable Tree Guard Shelter Report

This report provides an overview of biodegradable tree guard shelters, focusing on the products offered by Greentech, Tubex, and Rainbow Professional. It discusses the increasing awareness of plastic pollution and the growing market for biodegradable alternatives. The report highlights the features and benefits of various tree guard products, including the use of biodegradable polymers, weed mats, and spiral guards. It examines the companies' efforts to reduce plastic usage, promote environmental responsibility, and provide sustainable solutions for landscaping, forestry, and horticulture. The report also references relevant industry standards and certifications, such as ISO 14001:2015 and BS OHSAS18001:2007, to emphasize the commitment to quality and environmental management. The analysis covers the background of the companies, their product ranges, and their contributions to sustainable practices within the landscaping and forestry sectors. The report also discusses the materials used, the lifespan of the products, and their impact on soil health.

BIODEGRADABLE TREE GUARD SHELTERS
INTRODUCTION
Recently, the world has realized that plastic is one of the most
harmful substances that are present in our environment.
Plastic pollution leads to pollution of the land, water and air. It
is important to mention that institutions and the governments
along with the people are becoming increasingly aware of the
harmful effects of plastic and due to this biodegradable
product are being promoted. It is highlighting fact that the
markets for the biodegradable products are growing at a faster
rate and there are several new products that are being
released into the corporate and the household sectors. The
customers of the biodegradable products are the assorted
customers, homemakers, small business, religious institutions,
hospitals, academic institution, government institutions, and
the corporate institutions that are nature savvy (Wei et al.,
2017).
BACKGROUND
The biodegradable tree guard shelters consist of the mulch mat
pegs, bamboo canes, bio weed mats and the spiral vole guards.
It is important to mention that the Genentech company is
looking forwards to reduce the usage of the standards plastics
across the industry and wants to make a product that will be
environmentally friendly, control erosion and the weed by a
range of the planting materials and essentials. The spiral and
the vole guards consists of the biodegradable polymers and it
later on breaks down. These materials are full compostable
after the usage of 4 to 5 years. The Greentech company has
some of the products that are named Treebio and Bio Spiral
tree guard. It is important to mention that the products have
been launched so as to help our customers balance the need of
the customers and also address the environmental conscience
and along with their policies of corporate responsibility (Latten,
et al. 2017).
• While the Bioguard spiral tree guard has a wide range of
heights and three different diameters.
• The Bio weed mats are entirely made up of plant material
and the it will be biodegradable to compost at the end of the
lifetime that provides nutrient rich material for the soil and it
negates any kind of ongoing maintenance costs (Nikolić et al.
2017).
GREENTECH
Greentech is the largest landscaping supplier and it
provides wholesale garden supplies and quality landscaping
for the landowners, designers, architects and landscape
contractors. Greentech essentials have a total of 6500 tried
and tested products and is even ranges from the planting a
biodiverse wildflower meadow, creation of urban
landscape, and tree planting in a woodland and the
maintenance of the public open space. Greentech was
founded in the year 1994 by the Rachel Kay and Richard kay
and this has now become a one of the largest supplier of
the consumables and the landscape materials and it now
employs a total of 80 employees (Green-tech.co.uk 2019).
TUBEX
RAINBOW
Rainbow professional is one of the leading companies in the UK that
provides with the distribution and manufacturing of the products
that are entirely aimed towards the amenity markets, landscape,
horticulture and forestry. The company is found to be very aware of
the environment and the due to this it recycles the materials
whenever possible in the production of the specific products. The
company was originally found in the year 1961 and it provides a
wide range of products like the hexapath, ground stabilisation
system like the rite pave, easy fix strapping and chainlock with
cushions and trees, buckle tree ties, and he defender tree shelters,
rainbow tree spiral guards. Rainbow professionals is proud that they
use 100 percent of the recycled plastics in the production of the
Tree spiral guards and this results into the saving of the plastics
ending in the landfills. With this expertise in the fields the company
is ow launching a fully biodegradable Tree shelter especially for the
forestry sector (Rainbow.eu.com 2019).
Tubex is one of the major companies that deals with the
shelter development since the year 1980. Tubex brand is
now recognised as the world knowns commonly that
provides quality service and product. The different field in
which Tubex provides its products are the Fruit,
Landscaping, viticulture and Forestry. Tubex provides a wide
range of products that meets a wide range of needs of the
customers, and Tubex helps in the faster establishment with
the Tubex shelter. The Tubex [products are certified to ISO
14001:2015 & BS OHSAS18001:2007 (Tubex.com 2019).
SUREGREEN
Suregreen has dedicated in providing gardening products
and high quality landscapes and it includes a wide range of
domestic product. the company is relatively new and it was
established in the year 2013 and the products are constantly
improving and expanding. The company is established in
United Kingdom (Sure-green.com 2019).

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