Supporting a major climate change solution whilst reducing forestry plastic pollution

该项目将寻求克服环境塑料污染，这种污染很可能来自植树活动，特别是发达国家的林业（如美国、欧盟和英国）。为此，它将提供更多与环境兼容的产品，并提供更好的报废选择，到全球植树社区（如减缓气候变化）和商业林业。本项目开发的产品旨在提高植树生产力，特别是在发展中国家市场，发达国家的最佳做法很少被采用。主要合作伙伴Chestnut Natural Capital Ltd的目的是通过开发活动和项目产出的未来全球销售，向全球植树社区推广最佳做法。该财团正在开发在陆地和海洋中真正可生物降解的新材料。这些将用于制造新的可持续产品，以取代现有的不可生物降解的塑料产品。因此，该项目将防止持久性塑料释放到自然环境中。该项目将创造就业机会，支持英国政府的战略，并帮助实现英国政府的气候变化目标，通过：（1）在英国和发展中国家市场植树（例如，将植树目标离岸外包），同时（2）限制国内和全球植树活动产生的塑料污染。由主要合作伙伴Chestnut Natural Capital Ltd提供的技术许可和技术服务，该项目将提供一个平台，以便迅速扩大到外国市场（非洲、南美洲和亚洲），支持与世界农林协会（农林协会）一起在世界范围内采用更好、更可持续的植树做法。

This project will look to overcome environmental plastic pollution that is very likely to arise from tree-planting activities, particularly in the forestry industry in the developed world (e.g. US, EU and UK).It will do this by providing more environmentally compatible products, with better end-of-life options, to the global tree-planting community (e.g. climate change mitigation) & commercial forestry.The product developed in this project is intended to deliver greater tree-planting productivity, particularly in developing world markets where developed-world best-practice is rarely adopted.It is the intention of Lead Partner, Chestnut Natural Capital Ltd, to promote best practice to global tree-planting communities, through exploitation activities and future global sales arising from project outputs.The consortium is developing new materials that are truly biodegradable on land and in the sea. These will be used in the manufacture of new sustainable products that replace existing non-biodegradable plastic products. This project will, therefore, prevent the release of persistent plastics into the natural environment.The project will create jobs, support UK Government strategy and help to meet UK Government targets for climate change, by; (1) planting trees in the UK and in developing-world markets (e.g. offshoring tree-planting targets), whilst (2) limiting plastics pollution arising from domestic and global tree-planting activities.Licensing of the technology, and technical services provided by the Lead Partner, Chestnut Natural Capital Ltd, will deliver a platform for rapid scale-out into foreign markets (Africa, South America and Asia), supporting the adoption of better and more sustainable tree-planting practices worldwide with the World Agro-forestry Association (ICRAF).