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Agricultural Poly Plastic Alternative
EcoCover Replaces Plastic Film Used as
Mulch
Worldwide
each year, over 30 million acres are under agricultural
cultivation using poly plastic as mulch. Three
million of these acres are in the USA. There are
four major problems with plastic that are not
part of the initial purchase price.
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 The
cost of getting plastic up out of the field at the
end of the growing season. This is mandatory
for certified organic growers.
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Environmentally responsible disposal.
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Plastic prices and supply are directly tied to the
price and availability of natural gas and petroleum.
As oil and gas prices rise and supplies tighten,
farmers and other growers must have an economically
viable alternative to plastic mulch. Low input
costs are essential to agricultural success.
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Plastic is not environmentally or economically
sustainable. Read
Plastic Product Prices Rise As Natural Gas Prices
Soar.
The
alternative is here. It's EcoCover.
 EcoCover is a paper mulch mat made
up to 87-percent by weight from recycled waste paper and
post consumer recycled paper that might otherwise go to
landfill. EcoCover helps
solve solid waste
disposal problems that are prevalent almost everywhere
in the world. When a farmer, gardener, vineyard or
orchard grower mulches with EcoCover, the end
result of the product is tilled into the soil and
becomes additional humus and
earthworm castings.
There is nothing to take up, nothing to dispose of, zero waste, no harm.
EcoCover EcoCrop™, our product used primarily for annual
crops like vegetables, is already competitively priced
with better grades of plastic. We will continue to
see a competitive cost advantage for our products.
EcoCover prices should remain comparatively stable
compared to plastic which is tied directly to the price
of fossil based energy.
The other benefits of EcoCover
are big. EcoCover has real benefits to
agriculture and has consistently outperformed plastic
mulch in independently conducted university research
trials around the world. Research shows:
The research is available for your
review.
Black
agricultural poly plastic, EcoCover EcoCrop™ Red and EcoCover
EcoCrop™
at
Massey University trial field in Palmerston North,
New Zealand 2006
Results: 29.4% higher tomato yields; 42.3% higher
pepper yields.
The only difference was EcoCover.
The new business opportunity with
EcoCover is to purchase the manufacturing plants to make
the products locally. In an energy constrained
future, local production for local consumption will be
the new normal, which is actually the way things used to
work before the invention of the automobile, long haul
trucking and air transport, all of which are highly
dependent on fossil fuels. Local production and
supply will make the best use of our energy resources.
In the time between now and then, EcoCover can be sold
anyplace in the world and the entire USA, Canada and the
rest of North America is your market.
Agriculture is already too dependent on fossil fuels.
The time to change this is now.
If you are manufacturing or
distributing agricultural poly plastic, you need to
look at EcoCover. The products are brand-able and
profitable
to manufacture.
If you are using agricultural
poly plastic, you need to look at EcoCover.
The economic and environmental benefits are proven.
Read what
EcoCover mulch users say in other parts of the
world.
It appears that the
first EcoCover manufacturing plant in North America
will be in operation in the Spring of 2007. In
order to replace plastic used as mulch, it will take
over 2,500 plants manufacturing EcoCover 2 shifts 240
days a year just in the United States. The
opportunity is huge and the markets are essential.
If you are interested in
purchasing EcoCover products in 2007 or if you are
interested in the business opportunity which is
available today,
please contact me. Sign up for email news
and we will keep you posted on our progress.
Learn more about the EcoCover
ground floor opportunity.
The future is EcoCover. Cheers,
Ron Castle
EcoCover Business Development North America
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