What is StormwaterPEAT™?
StormwaterPEAT™ is an environmentally harvested peat.
First, StormwaterPEAT™ is manufactured from a real peat. There is certainly an environmental impact of harvesting peat, but the peat that we process then goes on to have a different kind of environmental impact. A positive one. Our StormwaterPEAT™ is removing heavy metals from stormwater so that it can be released and reused. There are a lot of different products for water remediation. Some are mined, like zeolite and greensand. Some are made from petroleum, like ion exchange resins. Some are more "green", like biochar and wood chips. StormwaterPEAT™ is somewhere in the middle of that. StormwaterPEAT™ is a very slowly renewing resource. The best use for this type of resource is in high value applications such as maintaining clean water.
Second, one important factor to keep in mind is that as they harvest the StormwaterPEAT™ and then leave behind an area, they reclaim that area to a peat-producing wetland that has significant ecological value. They establish native plants and create habitat for all sorts of vertebrates and invertebrates. They operate under strict regulatory controls that dictate how a peatland needs to be reclaimed. At the end of the day, they are removing peat from a wetland, but they are leaving behind a different kind of aquatic system. They're not paving the wetland to make a parking lot.
Third, the peat comes from a part of the United States where peatlands are ubiquitous. Which means that there is far more peat accumulating every year than they are harvesting.
And then last, and this is kind of related to the first point, they are not harvesting peat for horticultural or landscape applications. The bulk of peat harvested every year in this country goes into potting soil or soil mixes. Those are perfectly acceptable uses, but peat could be replaced in those situations by things like compost. We believe StormwaterPEAT™ is the best secondary item to blend with our StormwaterBIOCHAR™, StormwaterSHALE™ and StormwaterZEOLITE™ to give the best life and results in a natural blend.
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