The Garden Centre Association are promote their member to do what they can to help reduce the amount of charge card going to landfill .
Two of its extremity center of attention of late worked with Herefordshire and Worcestershire authorities to get non - black PP charge plate flowerpot and tray accepted in family and kerbside recycling bin .
Will Blake , Director at St Peter ’s Garden Centre in Norton , Worcester , order : “ There has been a lot of discussions among GCA members about how we can help oneself keep down plastic waste , especially as there is a turgid amount of it in the garden centre of attention industry currently .
“ Myself , along with Nick Baker at Webbs of Wychbold garden pith at Droitwich Spa , have recently been in touch with the local authorities to see how we could aid .
“ Nick write to the local councils , only to find out , that many will not accept plastic plant can in recycling , however I chew the fat the reuse plant for our counties and discussed it further with them . They had heard of the taupe industrial plant pot and receive a visit to discourse the situation . I require a whole extract of PP pots with me – Popplemann Teku , Taupe , opprobrious and also some tray .
“ We put all the mass types through the plant life , and the proficient news is that , every exclusive non - pitch-black PP pot was identified by the infrared scanners and sorted into its correct charge card category .
“ The particular society I visited , Severn Waste Services , were extremely helpful , and really prize my input . Within a week of the visit , they had update their website ( which list just what can and ca n’t be placed in the recycling BIN ) and they meet with the county council to advise of the sufferance of non - contraband PP plant pots , which is great news for the people of Herefordshire and Worcestershire . ”
All non - black PP plastic mass and tray can be take on in household and kerbside recycling in the Herefordshire and Worcestershire areas .
Will bestow : “ As garden centre , St Peter ’s and Webbs of Wychbold are now actively advertising this to our customers , both instore using posters , but also through social mass medium .
“ We were ab initio inspired to do something about this emergence after David Chilvers of Bransford Webbs Plant Company , which is a GCA Associate Member , pioneered a fuscous tummy enterprise in 2018 .
“ A group made up of the largest growers in the UK , came together and set up that they needed to change the colouration of the plant passel , to enable them to be recycled . This has now been wide adopt and the majority of plants rise in the UK , from spring 2019 , are now done so in recyclable PP plant pots . ”
