Buttercupdays. Just put a free ad on gumtree or freecycle. I never buy pots, I get them from my mums. She has a sign up , so that people buying plants from her, bring the used pots back, and usually the bag full they had in the shed as well. They get sorted , stacked , and used as necessary. I collected some more from a friend at easter. She bought a load of hyacinths in individual pots for instant colour (all reduced to 50p at B&Q). She got instant colour, I gained more pots.
I also use old meat and Veg trays for seeds, some last multiple years some break almost before their occupants are re homed. it's a little different here, we don't have curbside recycling more than once a month, and you have to phone up for it 10 days before the due date, so we normlay end up missing it, but we can go up the tip and take everything up there. Even mixes are not an issue, or old hoses all sorts can go there, they have all the usual recycling containers (including soft plastics) and one called small burnables and one large burnables. Both go to the "fjernvarme" Which is the towns heating and electricity plant. What is even more amusing is that we IMPORT Scottish rubbish to burn at these plants too.
Our rubbish used to go to China for their power plants, but not any more. we have furnaces opening in lots of town now. My daughter in St Austell and step daughter in Cardiff have them but they don’t know where, perhaps they are kept secret for a reason, does anyone else know where their towns incinerators are?
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
As others have said, it makes absolutely no sense not to use plastic items we already have. The alternative is to throw them away and thereby add to the mountains of waste plastic.
I have hundreads of plastic pots trays and labels that I will continue to use and replace as nessary. The reason is because they last a long time, much better to use what you have over and over than to change and throw it away because of this recent hate of plastic.
They are unpopular but so are crematoriums. I don’t think there will be an easy solution. I can’t see the government making changes to the making of the stuff, we are over populated obviously, so there will always be mountains of plastic waste, let’s hope the ones in the know will come up with a solution and soon. I think most gardeners re use their pots and labels.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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What is even more amusing is that we IMPORT Scottish rubbish to burn at these plants too.
we have furnaces opening in lots of town now. My daughter in St Austell and step daughter in Cardiff have them but they don’t know where, perhaps they are kept secret for a reason, does anyone else know where their towns incinerators are?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-26925831
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I don’t think there will be an easy solution. I can’t see the government making changes to the making of the stuff, we are over populated obviously, so there will always be mountains of plastic waste, let’s hope the ones in the know will come up with a solution and soon.
I think most gardeners re use their pots and labels.