ROOTS AND BRANCHES
July 1st, 2001
KEITH NUTHALL
A JAPANESE company, Kumagai Gumi Co., Ltd., and the Japanese Forest and Forest Products Research Institute, have jointly established a new technique to recover and reuse roots and branches of felled trees for the greening of newly developed residential regions. The process strips the wood into thin and long needles and mixes them with processed soil and fertilizer to create soil foundations.
A JAPANESE company, Kumagai Gumi Co., Ltd., and the Japanese Forest and Forest Products Research Institute, have jointly established a new technique to recover and reuse roots and branches of felled trees for the greening of newly developed residential regions. The process strips the wood into thin and long needles and mixes them with processed soil and fertilizer to create soil foundations.
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