Rubber Mulch News

If you are like me, snow has its place, a few days a year around the holiday season, followed by an immediate warming back to the 80° degree mark.

The temperature is falling, the color is fading, the warm wind from the south has shifted to the north – these are all signs that our friend Old Man Winter will be making his annual appearance. For those of you fortunate enough to live in climates where winter means putting on a sweater at night to “take the chill out of the air,” or reducing the amount of SPF you put on before hitting the beach, we envy you, as 90% of the United States goes into hibernation in the coming weeks and months.

So you fancy yourself a “master of the moss,” a.k.a., someone who takes great pride in how their lawn and landscaping looks. You own every conceivable accoutrement for grooming your lawn. Some may even say that you are the envy of a professional groundskeeper at a major league baseball stadium. You have mastered the “diamond grass cloth pattern” (if you know what this is, you know I am talking to you), and friends and family call you the “Da Vinci of Da Lawn.” It is a moniker you wear with pride.

Thank you for the overwhelming response to our photo submission contest, it wasn’t easy, but our first winner comes from a man whom we should now refer to as "Titan of the Turf." I truly believe after viewing his photos that his yard is neater and in better order than the inside of most homes. Congratulations to Gary Whitehurst for creating a pristine and beautiful scape using Rubberific Mulch.

I cannot speak for the recycled rubber industry or for any other recycled rubber company’s products. I can speak about the products that we produce at IMC. The future of the environment is not a game; it is not a discussion of half truths or misinformation. We at International Mulch Company take our responsibility seriously, and we have the test results to prove it.

As Americans we know how to work, we just don’t know how to relax. Remember when we were children counting the days until we could take our three-month summer vacation? Playing a pick-up game of baseball from dawn until dusk, only stopping for lunch or if we lost the ball over a neighbor’s fence. Twenty or thirty years ago we didn’t sit glued in front of a television playing video games, we hit the open road on our bikes seeking adventure, fished at a local pond by day and caught fireflies by night – carefree was our mantra.

We know you take great pride in the way your yard looks – you like the idea of having “curb appeal.” At IMC we often don’t get to see the great things that people have done with our products. This is a win-win situation for both of us. All you have to do is grab your digital camera and take a picture of your yard with IMC products and submit your photo to us. If we post your photo on our site we will give you $250 worth of product, Rubberific Mulch, NuPlay or Rubberific Timbers – just let us know what you want and we’ll deliver it to your door!

Just because the summer season is behind us doesn’t mean that we need to trade in our gardening tools for the snow shovel. If you planned it out in the spring, you should have some fall color starting to reach its peak…if you didn’t plan for the end of the season, don’t give up hope because you can still enjoy a beautiful bounty of fall bouquets.

Stories around the globe that are interesting.

“Buying green” has taken off in the past ten years and become a way of life for many of us. We are getting the message that this is our world and we need to change the way we live in it. In the next five years hybrid cars will make up more than 5 percent of all cars sold. Wal-Mart plans to invest $500 million a year in energy-saving technologies. Consumers spend more than $130 billion dollars a year on environmentally-friendly products.