Echoing ongoing recommendations from Florida experts, the Sierra Club is telling retailers around the country to stop selling most garden mulches produced from cypress trees, which act as storm buffers during hurricanes.
“As the nation’s largest retailers, Home Depot, Lowe’s and Wal-Mart have the power to dramatically reduce needless destruction of cypress forests,” said Robert Cox, newly elected president of the Sierra Club. “We are calling on these three retailers to live up to their own corporate policies of sustainability and stop selling cypress mulch. Local stores and nurseries should also stop selling the product.”
Alternative mulches such as pine straw and pine bark nuggets work without destroying coastal wetland; or buying melaleuca mulch encourages private enterprise to destroy these highly invasive trees.
For more information, visit www.saveourcypress.org.
Article originally published Summer 2007.
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