Environmental Controls at Contamination & Land Remediation (CLR) EXPO 2024
Our invasive plants experts were once again available to answer visitor’s questions at the hugely popular Contamination & land Remediation (CLR) EXPO. Our Invasive and amenity weed expert Darren Greatbatch, John Butcher our lead surveyor and knotweed legal specialist, and Ross Cheeseright from our marketing team were kept extremely busy during the 2-day event, with top questions being on how we treat and remove invasive plants such as Japanese knotweed, Hemlock, Giant hogweed, Himalayan balsam and invasive aquatic plants such as Floating pennywort, Parrot’s feather, Azolla and Skunk cabbage.
This year was the third consecutive year we’ve exhibited at this event and as we continue to expand our services we had plenty to offer visitors to the stand. Our much-loved knotweed and invasive weeds ID banner pens went down a storm (in fact there were none left), the newly designed pen is ideal for helping you spot knotweed or other invasive plants whilst on site.
LIVING INVASIVE SPECIES
Last year we took along a living knotweed specimen which was extremely popular – it’s not every day you get to see one up close! That knotweed sample is still very much alive and even more spectacular – and accompanied the team again this year, along with a fantastic rhizome specimen. The team were also able to show what asbestos looks like up close (with contained samples) and explained the benefits of our bespoke approach to contaminated ground removal and how the methods we adopt save our clients both project time and costs.
What’s new?
This year we’ve been busy fine-tuning our services, kit and methodologies, as well as ramping up our H&S. Here’s a quick run through:
- All-In-One Multi-contaminant Removal service gets rid of both invasive weeds and asbestos contaminated ground at the same time, reducing client costs and project delivery time.
- Hand-picking ACMs (Asbestos Containing Material) reduces volume of soils to landfill.
- New Bamboo Excavation Programme reduces soil volume to landfill.
- IWM approach to invasive and aquatic weed removal reduces need to use herbicide.
- Vacuum Extraction excavation method protects the environment and habitats and is ideal for weed removal on SSSI sites.
- Bespoke built quadbikes achieve better amenity weed control efficiency with up to 60% less herbicide usage for councils.
- External H&S audit achieves 100% for two years running.
- Project-Dash our bespoke internally created project management system gets an upgrade to ensure our clients receive live from field reporting.
If you’d like more information on our invasive plant control and removal services contact us below: