Highways, Say Goodbye to Weeds

Benefits of WeedEnder, a vegetation control matting, include erosion control, water permeability and less need for spraying weed killer or using a string trimmer, resulting in reduced labor costs. Most useful applications of the product are along guardrails, fence lines and around signposts.
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If you are a landscape contractor or landscape architect that works with highways, roadways and departments of transportation, then you often have to deal with weed control. Many new projects released for bidding include requests for WeedEnder, a vegetation control product.

Weed control mat (fiber) dramatically reduces the maintenance tasks of mowing and trimming around the roadside assets found along streets and highways.

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U-TECK can help eliminate the need for herbicide use and string trimming with WeedEnder. This product made from 100 percent post-consumer recycled materials, prevents unwanted vegetation growth by depriving root systems of sun, yet still allowing water and nutrients to move through the fiber. ?????EUR??,,?EUR

Normally, plastic bottles along the side of a highway are considered litter and must be picked up. But an experiment on I-135 in Wichita, Kansas used a roadside weed barrier material made from 100 percent post-consumer plastic bottles.

WeedEnder deprives vegetation of sunlight yet allows water to infiltrate. It is available in rolls one to six feet wide in a 250-foot roll. It has been used in other areas of the country and has been found to be resistant to degradation by ultra-violet light. It also has a life span of at least 15 years.

Each mile of WeedEnder keeps 50,000 bottles from entering landfills and may prove to be a good labor-saving green solution along highways.