Close the gardening loop!
The Plastic Pot Recycling collection at the Missouri Botanical Garden is open for the season. Help reduce the amount of horticultural waste in landfills by recycling your plastic garden pots, polystyrene cell packs and trays at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Plastic Pot Recycling will be offered daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Sept. 30 at the Monsanto Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden, plus 10 more retail garden centers scattered throughout the St. Louis region.
Horticulture plastic will be accepted at the the main collection facility located at the west parking lot of the Monsanto Center, 4500 Shaw Blvd. at the corner of Vandeventer. Ten area garden centers will serve as satellite collection sites in 2010. Bowood Farms, Crabapple Cove Nursery, Garden Heights Nursery, Greenscape Gardens, Hartke Nursery, Rolling Ridge Garden Center, Summer Winds/Timber Creek Nursery, Thies Farm and Greenhouse, University Gardens, and new this year, Sherwood’s Forest Nursery and Garden Center. Each satellite collection site will collect horticultural plastic during their normal business hours through Sept. 30. Visit www.plasticpotrecycling.org for location information.
Horticultural plastic accepted includes cell packs, trays, pots of all sizes and hanging baskets. Please shake soil and rocks out of containers and remove all metal hangers, rings or other foreign materials, no plastic bags or clay pots are accepted. Separate #6 plastic cell packs and trays from #2 and #5 plastic pots into the recycling trailers. Garden edging, plastic sheeting materials and food plastic will not be accepted.
Information taken from St. Louis Green.
