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Cape Town - Retailer Woolworths aims to plant 17 000 trees - one for each employee - by 2012.
The first 800 trees, of an initial planting of 1 000 trees, were sourced from a Woolworths Trust EduPlant school nursery in Tembisa, Gauteng,and have been planted at the company's Midrand distribution campus as part of an ongoing greening project.
The trees - Rhus Lancea (Karee tree), Wild Gardenia, Noltea Africana (Soup Dogwood tree), Dais Cotinifolia (Pompom tree), Combretum Erythrophyllum (River Bushwillow) - are all indigenous.
The young saplings were planted in an area covering nearly
20 000m² of land.
The planting scheme forms part of Woolworths' Good Business Journey initiative, a five-year plan launched in 2007, which incorporates a series of targets and commitments that are centred on four key priorities: accelerating transformation, driving social development, enhancing our environmental focus, and addressing climate change.
"We are committed to supporting 'greening projects' as they contribute to offsetting our carbon footprint," said Woolworths in a statement. The company aims to reduce its relative carbon footprint by 30% by 2012.
Woolworths' Trust EduPlant initiative has established itself as the leading schools food gardening and greening programme that promotes the growing of good food using permaculture techniques.
Permaculture strives for agriculture that is ecologically sound and sustainable in the long term: this means that it should be non-polluting, economically and socially viable, and provide for its own needs.
- Fin24