Planting trees without plastic tree guards should be standard practice, a UK study has found, as leading conservation charities and landowners seek sustainable alternatives to reduce plastic waste.

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To save peppering the countryside with hundreds of plastic tree guards, UK start-up Nexgen has come up with a biodegradable alternative. Fashioned from a blend of wool, cashew oil and castor oil, ...

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The National Trust is testing out sustainable alternatives to plastic tree guards as part of its efforts to increase woodland cover on its land, the charity said. Alternatives to the plastic guards, ...

Scotland's forestry industry says it is taking action to reduce the plastic pollution caused by tree planting. Hundreds of thousands of plastic tube tree guards are used every year to protect saplings ...

A conservation charity has pledged to phase out the use of plastic tree guards and replace them with more sustainable materials. The Woodland Trust is trialling alternative materials such as cardboard ...

Trees are being protected by wool in a pioneering project to end the plague of plastic in new woodlands. A national scheme to test alternatives to plastic "tree guards", used to protect saplings from ...