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I found out something else today! Being a keen gardener with a passion for growing tomatoes,aubergines,chillis, bell peppers in my two greenhouses I found out peat compost is being phased out from this year, Between 2022-2024 Peat Free compost will only be available and lots of retailers have already stopped selling it.
I’ve just been to load the car up with 75ltr bags of the good stuff before it disappears from my local retailer.
All to do with the Net Zero climate change policy the UK is signed up to, 250000 hectres of UK peat land will have to be restored by 2030 apparently.That will be a lot of people out of work around Street and Glastonbury in Somerset as there’s at least 3 compost places there
Are there many peat bogs around Street or Glastonbury?
The report I read from May 21 didn’t really name specific areas of the UK. I’ll try to find the latest one I read on my other desktop PC later.
edie.net/news/11/Trees–pea … ls-in-law/
"Also published today is the England Peat Action Plan. Like the England Trees Action Plan, it will be financed through the Nature for Climate Fund, to the tune of £50m between now and 2024.
A key commitment of the Plan is to ban the sale of peat products, including compost, by May 2024. A consultation will launch later this year to determine the specifics of the phase-out. Several retailers have already banned peat products on a voluntary basis, including Dobbies Garden Centres (which has a 2022 target) "and the Co-op. A legally mandated ban would affect two million cubic metres of peat-based compost per year, according to the ECIU.