A new website went
online yesterday that might interest you:
http://www.ecopinusa.com
In landscaping,
horticulture, agriculture, gardening and soil
remediation or erosion control, landscaping fabric,
plastic film and EcoCover paper mulch mats are
staked or pinned to the ground using steel
landscape pins or spikes
with large washers or steel sod staples that look
something like a croquet wicket.
With China buying
up the world's steel scrap at record prices over the
past several years, the price of lower grades of
steel to make steel pins for
landscape fabric and sod
staples as risen sharply.
The market needs a low cost sustainable alternative
to steel.
Steel pins and
staples will eventually rust away if left in the
soil, but they are a human injury hazard in lawns
and gardens and a tire puncture hazard for mowers,
tractors and other rubber tired equipment.
EcoPins are an
organically certifiable alternative to steel
landscape pins and
sod staples, manufactured
from a bio resin reinforced with an edible food by-product
made from corn. EcoPins are biodegradable with a
useful life of a year or more in most soils.
An EcoPin™ weighs
about 20 percent of a steel pin and will have
a significant price advantage over steel
alternatives. So, we have a price advantage, an
environmental advantage and a shipping weight and
energy input cost advantage. This new product will
be both an economic, energy input and environmental
winner.
If you are
interested in using or reselling EcoPin™, please
visit the web and request a sample. The
manufacturing process and the product will be
organically certified in New Zealand as soon as the
final production process is under way.
Owners of EcoCover
manufacturing plants will have the opportunity
to market and perhaps even manufacture EcoPin™
under license.
This is a
stand-alone product with well defined markets
and distinct competitive advantages, another
example of EcoCover research and development to
create sustainable products with unique benefits
in a rapidly changing world.
If
you are not aware of the need for sustainable
products, read my friend Lester Brown's
books Plan B 2.0 and Outgrowing the Earth
available from Lester's web
www.earth-policy.org.
You can
download William McDonough's tenth
anniversary edition of
The Hannover Principles, a remarkable work
on the need for sustainable design, products and
processes.
