{"id":116517,"date":"2020-05-20T03:30:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T20:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/plantwatch-vital-peat-needs-protection-from-compost-sales\/"},"modified":"2020-05-20T04:27:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T21:27:20","slug":"plantwatch-vital-peat-needs-protection-from-compost-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/plantwatch-vital-peat-needs-protection-from-compost-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Plantwatch: vital peat needs protection from compost sales"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDamaged peatlands account for 5% of all annual manmade greenhouse gas emissionsGardeners have been loading up with compost and plants as garden centres have reopened in the UK, except for Scotland. But compost made with peat is still being used by both gardeners and commercial growers, even though it is dug up from peatlands, devastating wild bogplants, wildlife, and sabotaging the fight against the climate crisis.Peat is made up of dead plants saturated and preserved in water, locking away vast amounts of carbon in the plant remains. Peatlands account for about 3% of the Earth\u2019s land area but hold more than one-third of all the carbon in soil, and more than twice as much as the world\u2019s forests. But when peatlands are damaged they release their carbon, some 2bn tonnes of CO2 worldwide annually, more than 5% of all manmade greenhouse gas emissions. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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