PDF The Missouri Botanical Gardens is a great resource for the St. Louis community. Each year, residents and visitors visit to gardens, attend festivals and enjoy the Whitaker Festival free concerts.
In addition, the Botanical Gardens are also providing a wonderful service to collect plastic pots for recycling.
The Missouri Botanical Garden operates the most extensive public garden recycling program in the nation. The Plastic Pot Recycling program collected a record 130,000 pounds of horticultural waste in 2009.
To date, the Garden’s Plastic Pot Recycling program has saved over 800,000 pounds, or 400 tons, of plastic garden pots, cell packs and trays from landfills.
Recycle Your Plastic Pots:
Beginning May 3, 2010, the Missouri Botanical Gardens will be collecting plastic pots and trays at locations throughout St. Louis City and County. University Gardens located on Delmar in University City is one of the drop off locations.
Before dropping off your plastic pots:
- sort your containers into cell packs, pots and trays
- shake soil and rocks out of containers
- remove all metal hangers, rings or other foreign materials
Plastic Items Accepted:
Cell packs
Hanging baskets
Trays
Pots of all sizes
Plastic Items Not Accepted:
No household plastic
No food plastic
No clay pots
No soil
No metal hangers
No plastic bags
The plastic pots and trays will be ground up into chips and sold to manufacturers that produce plastic lumber, retaining wall ties, or other recycled products. The plastic timbers are water and pest resistant and can be cut and drilled similar to wooden lumber. They outlast traditional wooden railroad ties which have a life span of only10-15 years.
See the complete list of drop off centers throughout St. Louis City and County…
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