Plastics can travel from watershed to ocean

This new video created by long-time volunteer and former staffer Chris Runyard depicts the importance of keeping plastics out of waterways.

As Runyard will tell you, Friends of Trees and its Green Space Initiative (GSI) program plant trees and shrubs in restoration areas, responsibly using plastic tubes and tape to increase plant survivability.

This planting season GSI is experimenting with a biodegradable flagging tape to see how it holds up, said GSI Manager Logan Lauvray.

Also, in reference to plastic tree tubes that protect young saplings, GSI did not need to purchase any new tubes this season because of its policy of retrieving and reusing tubes from older plant sites.

Planting trees and protecting shared waterways is important work, as is educating us all on the best practices for doing so. Great video Chris!

–Toshio Suzuki