How can flowers be anything but delightful? But there’s more that we don’t see 😳 We came across this flower farm in the hills while we were hiking. Forests cleared and replaced with rows of flower bushes. The floriculture industry face a lot of similar issues to the way we produce food, like: ☠️The amount of chemical pesticides, weed killers and fertilisers they are bathed in wipe out bees and pollinators, pollute and degrade the soil, plus the intensive water usage to grow 💨The carbon emissions from being transported hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles and across oceans with flowers that don’t grow in our climate 🧊And oh the packaging. We’re buying more plastic than flowers! The individual packaging around each bud during transportation, the toxic floral foam (which leaks formaldehyde), the rolls of plastic wrap and plastic tape. 👫🏽The human cost. I’ve come across bouquets that smelt so strongly of chemicals it made me feel sick. Flowers don’t quite smell like flowers anymore. So how does this affect the health of workers who breathe it in everyday? 🗑The tonnes of waste created when imperfect flowers are thrown away (a friend once saw huge piles being discarded at a farm and rescued some!), plus after a few short days, bouquets end up in a landfill to then release methane. Just like most industries, we need to change the way they’re grown and processed to be more sustainable and local. But it doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy flowers! With a little shift in our approach, we can do a lot better. Swipe left for some examples! How about: 🌸Gifting a live, flowering plant instead, the living blooms will bring joy for much longer 🌻Growing them in your garden so they can attract and feed pollinators, and cut them for a bouquet 💐Request a naked bouquet without packaging with the florist 🌺Or making local foliage the main focus of a bouquet, instead of roses and lilies?; and 🪵Compost your blooms after you’re done Happy Valentine’s everyone! #lowwaste #zerowaste

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