Working with retailers to increase use of sustainable growing media

Retailers’ Guide to Reducing Peat in Growing Media

This guide outlines the practical steps a retailer can take to understand the issues and ultimately minimise their impact on peat. It explains some of the drivers for change within the horticultural industry such as the issues caused by the extraction of peat, the UK Government’s targets in peat reduction, through to identifying what best practice looks like for the responsible retailing of growing media.

Latest research in sustainable growing media

For over 10 years, WRAP has been committed to improving the quality and availability of PAS100 composts, developing markets for composts, increasing the use of composts in growing media and increasing the use of compost-included growing media in both amateur and professional horticulture.

This work concerns quality composts that are PAS100-compliant, which have been made by compost producers accredited through the UK compost quality certification scheme. This project mainly concerns composts made solely from source-segregated green or garden wastes, although in some cases the composts discussed have been made from a mixture of green wastes and source-segregated food or food processing wastes.

Growforward bulletins

Regular Growforward bulletins provide regular updates from the Growing Media Panel and information on how retaliers can improve the quality of their growing media.