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NORFOLK MAIN FORD DEALER BUSSEYS has been doing its bit for the environment with a huge treeplanting initiative.
In a ground-breaking move, which began in March, the dealer has dispensed with giving bouquets of
flowers to customers buying new cars and instead pledged to plant a tree for each one sold.
And on Saturday, in a joint event with Norfolk County Council and the Woodland Trust, some 2,000 oak,
ash and maple trees and a variety of native shrubs were planted in a new woodland at North Burlingham, near Acle, by more than 200 people, most of them from local Scout groups.
Stuart Kirby, Busseys marketing administrator, said Busseys and its customers were doing their bit to
reduce their carbon footprints. Many customers were pleased to think there was a new woodland
which would be there for many years to come that they had contributed to by buying a car. The motor industry is seen as contributing to global-warming through emissions so Mr Kirby said it was good to be seen to be putting something back to improve the environment.
He said that the first batch of trees and shrubs covered six months of Busseys’ car sales and the successful initiative would be continuing. There are already plans to plant more trees and shrubs at a new and bigger community woodland in the South Walsham area in early spring.
Busseys is the first company in Norfolk to support the community woodland scheme which has been
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