RNGR.net is sponsored by the USDA Forest Service and Southern Regional Extension Forestry and is a colloborative effort between these two agencies.

U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA Forest Service Southern Regional Extension Forestry Southern Regional Extension Forestry

Biodegradable Containers

The concept of biodegradable containers to grow trees is not new. For example the Tar Paper Pot (1936) and the Jiffy Pot (1957) 1/ among many others are all biodegradable. The Forest Service in Region 3 recently has been examining several different kinds of containers that would fall into the biodegradable class of containers. Some of these include Frame° BR-8, Keyes Fiber Tree Start and Union Carbide containers. Of all these different kinds of containers, we would like to limit this talk to Union Carbide containers. Much of the preliminary work on the material in this container, polycaprolactone, has already been done. If you are interested in persuing the chemistry and degradation work, this was given in an earlier symposium 2/ that was held in Denver in 1974 and for that reason we will avoid digressing into that area.


Download this file:

PDF document Download this file — PDF document, 185Kb

Details

Author(s): John McClatchey

Event: Proceedings of Meetings Intermountain Nurserymen's Association
1977 - Manhattan, Kansas