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How does one get rid of the blooming things? I have just been looking at
our local council web site and see that they do not recycle plastic. I
have to take them to a quarry quite a distance away.
I wish that garden centre`s collected them ,maybe I will have to have a
word and see if they would be interested in starting something.Any other
ideas?
kate

Plastic plant pots
 

"Kate Morgan" wrote in message
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How does one get rid of the blooming things? I have just been looking at
our local council web site and see that they do not recycle plastic. I
have to take them to a quarry quite a distance away.
I wish that garden centre`s collected them ,maybe I will have to have a
word and see if they would be interested in starting something.Any other
ideas?
kate

My surplus pots have been well received by a fellow gardener who grows
plants to sell at her NGS Open Gardens. Check out your local Yellow Book
and see if anyone is interested.

Natalie

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In ,
Kate Morgan typed:
How does one get rid of the blooming things?

I generate these by t eh hundred when planting gardens. I take them to the
local recycling centre and stand them by one of the garden waste tips -
often then have been nabbed by another dumper before i have left!

pk

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says...
In ,
Kate Morgan typed:
How does one get rid of the blooming things?

I generate these by t eh hundred when planting gardens. I take them to the
local recycling centre and stand them by one of the garden waste tips -
often then have been nabbed by another dumper before i have left!

I tend to end up by the end of the season with loads of small ones. I
asked our local garden centre if I could add them to their 'free to good
homes' stack and they were happy to let them in proveided I'd hosed them
down and they didn't enter the centre itself.

This week they're offering 'free to good homes' on potato/bulb racks but
I can't dig up the bulbs due to the next batch of stuff coming in and
the tatties were late in planting so won't be coming out for a while.

Warwick

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In article ,
says...
In ,
Kate Morgan typed:
How does one get rid of the blooming things?

I generate these by t eh hundred when planting gardens. I take them to the
local recycling centre and stand them by one of the garden waste tips -
often then have been nabbed by another dumper before i have left!

I tend to end up by the end of the season with loads of small ones. I
asked our local garden centre if I could add them to their 'free to good
homes' stack and they were happy to let them in proveided I'd hosed them
down and they didn't enter the centre itself.

I don't think we'll have too many left at the end of this year, based on
the rate that Holly (8 month OES puppy) gets through them! If we're
really lucky, she waits until the pot is empty before she runds off with
it.


Johanna

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from Kate Morgan contains these words:

How does one get rid of the blooming things? I have just been looking at
our local council web site and see that they do not recycle plastic. I
have to take them to a quarry quite a distance away.
I wish that garden centre`s collected them ,maybe I will have to have a
word and see if they would be interested in starting something.Any other
ideas?

I've given stacks to plant swaps, jumble sales, schools and plant
tables at fetes, and they always seem to find homes..often with people
who are raising plants for plantswaps, charity sales etc

Janet.

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Kate Morgan wrote:

How does one get rid of the blooming things? I have just been looking at
our local council web site and see that they do not recycle plastic. I
have to take them to a quarry quite a distance away.
I wish that garden centre`s collected them ,maybe I will have to have a
word and see if they would be interested in starting something.Any other
ideas?
kate


Local community garden, allotment site or Horticultural Society,..
school (if its a member of the Schools Gardens scheme). Try also seeing
if there is a local Thrive garden, theraputic Horticulture, or NCCPG
garden, group etc nearby as these may be willing to take them.

There is now a commercial pot/packing recycling scheme although i don't
know how good the uptake is in the UK. Unfortunatly its not open to
small domestic use.

If you could be bothered you could try selling them on Ebay, very
cheaply.. I'm sure someone out there would be willing to pay a few quid
for postage;-)
//
Jim

Plastic plant pots
 

If you could be bothered you could try selling them on Ebay, very
cheaply.. I'm sure someone out there would be willing to pay a few quid
for postage;-)
//
Jim
My daughter suggested that but I could not imagine that anyone would
want them, perhaps I was wrong :-)
kate