Anyway this is a gardening website - just saying cut down on single use plastic wherever possible to eventually, hopefully, eradicate - thank you for your responses
Plastic isn't the problem, plastic WASTE is the problem. Should we all throw away all the plastic labels we've amassed over the years and cut down trees to make new wooden ones? I'll carry on wiping / re-using my plastic ones
Plastic isn't the problem, plastic WASTE is the problem. Should we all throw away all the plastic labels we've amassed over the years and cut down trees to make new wooden ones? I'll carry on wiping / re-using my plastic ones
Totally agree.The recycling companies are the issue. They need to sort their shoddy act out and make a better job of it. It's always easier to blame everyone else [especially the end user] rather than address the reality.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thirded here ... we should be re-using our plastic labels and plastic pots as many times as we can. Some people seem to think that recycling means putting something in the recycling bin
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My garage is half full of plastic plant pots. I hate throwing them out for landfill but there seems no way to recycle them here. A related problem is the huge variety of marginally different designs produced by different manufacturers, so they don't all match or stack easily. Could we not have a set of standard designs using at least some recycled plastic, then garden centres and retailers might be happier to accept and re-use them? I re-use labels until they break up, and even keep the pieces if they are long enough to write on! Useful on little pots where long ones don't work so well.
My garage is half full of plastic plant pots. I don't like throwing them out for landfill but there seems no way of recycling them here. A related problem is the huge variety of marginally different designs produced by different manufacturers, so they don't all match up or stack easily. Surely it would would be possible to have a set of standard designs, and then garden centres and other retailers would find it easier to accept and re-cycle them? I re-use plastic labels until they break up and even keep the bits if they are long enough to write on. Useful for very little pots, where long ones don't work so well.
I don’t buy plastic labels, I cut up anything I can find, yogurt/rice/pot noodles pots. Even those are bleached and scrubbed every year.
My seeds are grown in meat/veg trays, I pick up those big trays that hold six to twelve plants form the GC who leave those and pots out for the taking. I don’t ever buy plastic seed trays, I have just a few my dad left.
I don’t buy plastic to cover seeds, or use cloches, I wait for the weather to warm the soil.
My recycling box goes out once in 5 weeks, I don’t buy stuff in anything that’s going to be thrown away. I have two 12lt bags of rubbish to put out once a fortnight.
Now we have the big hot incinerators I’m sure it will make a big difference.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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I'll carry on wiping / re-using my plastic ones
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Some people seem to think that recycling means putting something in the recycling bin
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
A related problem is the huge variety of marginally different designs produced by different manufacturers, so they don't all match or stack easily.
Could we not have a set of standard designs using at least some recycled plastic, then garden centres and retailers might be happier to accept and re-use them?
I re-use labels until they break up, and even keep the pieces if they are long enough to write on! Useful on little pots where long ones don't work so well.
A related problem is the huge variety of marginally different designs produced by different manufacturers, so they don't all match up or stack easily.
Surely it would would be possible to have a set of standard designs, and then garden centres and other retailers would find it easier to accept and re-cycle them?
I re-use plastic labels until they break up and even keep the bits if they are long enough to write on. Useful for very little pots, where long ones don't work so well.
My seeds are grown in meat/veg trays, I pick up those big trays that hold six to twelve plants form the GC who leave those and pots out for the taking. I don’t ever buy plastic seed trays, I have just a few my dad left.
I don’t buy plastic to cover seeds, or use cloches, I wait for the weather to warm the soil.
My recycling box goes out once in 5 weeks, I don’t buy stuff in anything that’s going to be thrown away. I have two 12lt bags of rubbish to put out once a fortnight.
Now we have the big hot incinerators I’m sure it will make a big difference.