{"id":13861,"date":"2004-10-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20041020-08n"},"modified":"2004-10-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T22:00:00","slug":"waipuna-weed-killing-foam-with-a-sugar-extract-from-corn-and-coconut-against-noxious-weeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/waipuna-weed-killing-foam-with-a-sugar-extract-from-corn-and-coconut-against-noxious-weeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Waipuna Weed-killing Foam: With a Sugar extract from corn and coconut against noxious weeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Bureau of Land Management is testing a new way of killing noxious weeds: zapping them with hot foam as an alternative to herbicides.<\/b><\/p>\n<p> The BLM&#8217;s Eugene district is in the second year of a three-year lease of the weed-killing system, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waipuna.com\/\" >Waipuna<\/a>. Developed in New Zealand in 1993, it&#8217;s used worldwide to kill unwanted vegetation as well as remove chewing gum and graffiti and clean monuments.<\/p>\n<p> The treatment kills about 90 percent of the targeted weed, in this case false-brome, a foreign grass invading Western Oregon with alarming speed.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The plants are shocked instantly and die within four hours,&#8221; BLM worker Eric Norstog told The Register-Guard.<\/p>\n<p> Waipuna, from the Maori words for &#8220;water&#8221; and &#8220;clear spring,&#8221; uses a nontoxic, biodegradable foam created by infusing hot water with a sugar extract from corn and coconut.<\/p>\n<p> The hot-foam method is slower than spraying weeds with a herbicide, but it&#8217;s touted as an environmentally friendly solution for about the same cost. It&#8217;s also more versatile; it can be used in windy conditions and light rain, unlike most pesticides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Bureau of Land Management is testing a new way of killing noxious weeds: zapping them with hot foam as an alternative to herbicides.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-13861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13861"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=13861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}