MAKE IT GREEN

At ProScape we understand that our actions have a direct impact on the natural environment as well as the quality of our customer’s lives. We strive to take efforts to wisely conserve resources and also promote the products and services we provide that can benefit the health and well-being of our direct environments.

Resource conservation efforts include:

Use of proper vehicles and well maintained equipment. Our sales and management teams drive more  fuel efficient vehicles – the Honda Civic alone saves over 1,100 gallons of fuel each year over the use of a pickup truck or SUV. Properly maintained and newer equipment technology saves fuel and emissions.

We purchase plants and products from local vendors to minimize freight. The overwhelming majority of our products are produced right here in central and north-central Ohio.

Lawn and landscape treatments are timed to coincide with the landscape’s active use of the chemicals and nutrients thus alleviating runoff and waste. We constantly educate ourselves of the best agronomic and horticultural practices to provide optimum benefit at the lowest possible environmental cost.

Computerized routing and scheduling of multiple site maintenance services – allowing us to minimize driving and maximize operational effectiveness.

Use of recycled and organic products: Almost exclusively we use mulch, compost, and soil amendments from locally composted yard waste and debris. All of our yard waste that we generate is sent to composting facilities for re-use.

The other aspect of environmental stewardship that we embrace includes the actual products and services we install.

Plants and trees have obvious environmental benefits that are well documented, but many other items we can provide do as well. Having a healthy and well maintained lawn has the benefits of erosion and runoff control as well as the absorption of CO2 and production of oxygen.

According to the December 2010 newsletter from the National Turfgrass Evaluation Program (NTEP.org), recent research from Cornell University indicates unfertilized Kentucky bluegrass/weedy lawn turf has more nutrient runoff than a fertilized, dense stand of primarily Kentucky bluegrass.

Other products and services we provide can have similar environmental benefits by promoting plant health and establishment.