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Responsible Peat
Sustainable growing media
September 2011 – RHP - Hein Boon
Foundation RHP
Growing media and soil applications
- Research and development (knowledge)
- Consultancy
- Quality mark
Responsible Peat Sustainable growing media September 2011 RHP - Hein - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Responsible Peat Sustainable growing media September 2011 RHP - Hein - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Responsible Peat Sustainable growing media September 2011 RHP - Hein Boon Foundation RHP Growing media and soil applications Research and development (knowledge) Consultancy Quality mark Responsible Peat (responsibly
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‘Responsible Peat’
(responsibly produced peat)
- Awareness of developments
- Industry initiative
- Project and objectives
- Outlook
Film
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Raw materials
Soya Palm oil Fish (meal) Biomass Peat (production)
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Dutch government 3 key questions
- Insight in peat-production
and what are the issues?
- What can be improved and
are solutions available
- Agreements (industry
initiatives)
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Stakeholder-meeting (science, NGO’s, peat-industry, growing media producers, growers, retail) … discussions on … ‘Enhancing sustainability of the peat supply chain for Dutch Horticulture’
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The report exists of contemplative information about peat, provided by the project members and stakeholders As a result of this project an action plan was described for transparency in the peat-chain and establishing criteria for ‘responsible peat’.
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Approach
A Dutch industry* initiative with an European perspective TRANSPARENCY and ACCEPTABLE CRITERIA as basis for RESPONSIBLE PEAT
* VPN and RHP
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Why industry initiative?
- following the governmental policy
programme and stay in control of developments
- future availability of peat products
- demonstrable social responsibility
- ‘Responsible Peat’, means in
communication in access to markets European market for Growing Media is around 30 million m³ yearly …. with ~ 25 million m³ of peat
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Why industry initiative?
- following the governmental policy
programme and stay in control of developments
- future availability of peat products
- demonstrable social responsibility
- ‘Responsible Peat’, means in
communication in access to markets
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Transparency and criteria
The organisations VPN and RHP take initiative, in having the action plan being carried out by an Executive Committee
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Executive Committee
Growers / LTO Groeiservice Arthur van den Berg Retail / Tuinbranche NL Rard Metz Peat producers / PG Peat Leo Schipper Growing media producers / VPN Ben van der Geest NGO Wetlands International Marcel Silvius NGO IUCN Henk Simons International Peat Society Guus van Berckel IPS expert Jack Rieley EPAGMA Gerald Schmilewski BTH / IVG Bernd Hofer Dutch ministry of Agriculture Gerbrand Haverkamp Certification and quality / RHP Hein Boon Coordination Reinier de Man
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Project Structure
Chair/ coordinator Producer peat Producer Grow med NGO / environm grower retail
Executive committee
Expertise / certificat.
science
consultant
NGO
Advisory groups – (inter)national organisations and experts
Grow med
veen peat peat
substraat Grow med
EU- platform IPS EU- platform EPAGMA Rep.
government
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Objectives
- Define operational principles and
criteria
for responsible peat, starting from the earlier work by the International Peat Society (IPS) and EPAGMA.
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Objectives
- Define operational principles and
criteria
for responsible peat, starting from the earlier work by the International Peat Society (IPS) and EPAGMA.
- Define a certification scheme
based on these criteria (including concrete plans for field testing) which will be relevant not only in the Netherlands but also in a wider European context.
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Outlook ‘Responsible Peat’
- December 2011 principles and criteria
- Early 2012 certification scheme
- Trial-period
- Late 2012 introduction of certification
and communication
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