Wageningen University & Research ’s Greenhouse Horticulture & Flower Bulbs Business Unit will be researching what round nursery gardening means for horticultural patronage over the next few years . The research is finance by the Club van 100 , some of whose member , such as breeding company Florensis , are also members of the enquiry ’s supervisory committee . Greenport West - Holland speak about this with refinement specialist / researcher Alex Leinenga and sustainability and communicating director Regina Dinkla .
How does Florensis figure out on circularity?Alex : " Our aim for 2025 is to reduce our CO2 step . That ’s why we take a critical flavour at things like vigor consumption , residual flows , waste and crop protection products . We are doing this together with our foreign branches . "
Regina : " Last yr we organized a sustainability dirty money for employees . Many good ideas came out of it . The pull ahead idea concern the plant textile we use in display : ca n’t we compost it and commingle it with the potting compost we buy ? We are now working on that mind and other suggestions . "
Does money take on a part in this?Alex : " The great thing is that sustainable measures can sometimes save up money . One model is crop protection . After using chemical agents , employees are not allowed in the nursery for a while ; you do n’t have that problem with most organic subject matter . "
Regina : " In our branches in Kenya and Ethiopia , plastic bags were used for mother works culture . They were bedevil aside afterward . Now we use fictile works containers that can be used several times . Our well - known blue charge plate Florensis tray have also been transport to Kenya for the finish of cut material . These can be washed and reprocess after yield . "
What is the drive force behind this ambition?Regina : " A few years ago , the management of Florensis put sustainability high on the docket . thin the CO2 step is our ambition for 2025 . The step of the transportation from Kenya is compensated by local tree planting : 6,000 trees are planted each class by an external political party in the vicinity of our localization in Kenya . But disk shape goes further than just the CO2 footprint . For instance , we are assort to the Floriculture Sustainability Initiative ( FSI ): on behalf of Florensis , I am a phallus of the working radical on Living Wages . Together with the retail sector , among others , we are looking for ways to reduce and eventually hopefully solve the differences . "
How important is cooperation with chain partners?Alex : " You ca n’t do it alone , you need each other . But sometimes this creates a dilemma . For example , retail merchant want few pesticides to be used . But they also do n’t want products containing insects . This means that you could not utilise natural enemies . The function of light-green product is then a good choice , but you have to vary other things , such as humidity and temperature during cultivation . "
How were you Byzantine in the Circular Glasshouse Horticulture project?Alex : " The project loss leader at the fourth dimension asked us to fall in . He was see for a company that was at the sum of things to spar with . And it gives us the chance to change gear chop-chop and to examine solution in practice . For object lesson , we are investigating whether peat - free finish of industrial plant work on . We can then show that to our client .
About the Circular Glasshouse Horticulture projectIn the Circular Glasshouse Horticulture project , the Glasshouse Horticulture & Flower Bulbs Business Unit of Wageningen University & Research is investigate the moment of the circular thriftiness for glasshouse horticulture company . The research is funded by the Club van 100 . Greenport West - Holland is co - responsible for the international communicating .
