What is the history of KELP FIBER?
For over 50 years, Kelco, a division of ISP Alginates, Inc., has been harvesting the kelp beds along the California coastline for the production of algin, a commercially important thickening agent that is extracted from kelp. Disposal of the bulky, organic material that was left after the algin extraction process was becoming a real problem, so about twenty years ago Kelco commissioned a group of scientists to develop a use for this material. KELP FIBER, a very nutritious organic soil amendment was born out of the technological effort to reclaim the thousands of tons of kelp byproduct that were being dumped in San Diego landfills, where the high nutrient content was growing the healthiest weeds in town.
