land bank but increasing costs of production and haulage will always reflect in supply prices. “Supply of rootzones and top dressings is secure for the foreseeable future and there is, therefore, nothing to suggest that clubs will have to make any radical changes to their current material consumption.” Despite this, pressure is mounting to find substitutes for the ‘first choice’ materials such as sand. “Early trials of recycled glass have taken place,” Halfpenny says. “Initial results are promising but issues of availability, cost and consistency of material have yet to be fully resolved. “BRTMA is committed to developing the use of environmentally friendly products and research into effective UK rootzone specifications.


The Association continually works with other organisations involved in the specification and purchase ofrootzones and top dressings to improve industry knowledge and deliver appropriate solutions to client needs.”


ESTABLISHED a year later than the BRTMA in 2001, the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) was created in response to the government’s Waste Strategy 2000 to promote sustainable waste management. Glass recycling is one of six ‘material


streams’ on which it focuses its attention. “It is the mixed colour glass that finds application in sportsturf,” says Andy


Dawe, WRAP’s Glass Technology Manager. “WRAP is also involved in development work using recycled organic materials as alternatives to peat in rootzones, contracting out work to research organisations such as the Sports Turf Research Institute (STRI) who have undertaken trials on compost as well as recycled glass,” Dawe explains. The UK recycles 1.25m tonnes of glass bottles and jars at the moment, but the recycling process is clouded by issues that may be difficult to remedy. “More is being recovered as mixed colour glass and there is a major colour imbalance at the moment. We are importing a lot more green glass that exceeds the capacity of our glass industry to convert back into new bottles and jars. Conversely, we are exporting more clear glass, e.g. as whisky bottles, of the kind that we can recycle more readily.” So, the upshot is that Britain is importing the sort of glass it doesn’t want to recycle and exporting the kind that it does. A conundrum indeed, however, in terms of the applicability of mixed glass, there is potential good news on the horizon. Later on this year, WRAP will be publishing the results of a series of groundbreaking operational trials involving a consortium of ten golf clubs, including a couple of professional courses, who had utilised both recycle glass and a mixed colour glass/sand mix on-site. For more information on all of WRAP’s work go to www.wrap.org.uk


“It is the mixed colour glass that finds application in sportsturf”


Andy DAWE, WRAP Proven systemic ingredient.


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