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  Phil Voice July 19, 2008 at 9:25pm

  Hi Marc
  
  There is a thread here which might have a few answers that you are looking for.
  https://landscapejuice.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=2074886%3ATopic%...
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  Marc Cole July 19, 2008 at 10:15pm

  Thanks Philip, congrats on a great site.
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  Phil Voice July 20, 2008 at 8:55am

  Thanks Marc
  
  I am going to leave this thread going because we possible have two real waste problems.
  
  There are issues with waste transfer, transport and infill as far as general trade waste is concerned and there is also garden waste which I tend to consider to be bio-degradable in the main.
  
  I am still at a loss to this day why the Romans or the Victorians, who introduced so many new skills and inventions to sanitise us, failed to consider waste recycling as a basic requirement.
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  Kerrie John-The garden design Co July 20, 2008 at 9:11am

  We have a recycling center near us, can take garden waste and empty into a skip, then they chop it up. Can then purchase wood chippings from your donated waste!
  
  They charge for trade, so have to put the seats down in the beetle and fill the void with bags!
  
  Plastic pots are my main waste. Only Wyvale nursery do a recycling service for these and we don't have them around here. I get through thousands of the things each year which just end up in land fill. Dreadful, feel guilty each time I chuck them into the skip.
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  Nick Steele July 21, 2008 at 5:16pm

  Kerrie - won't the nursery that sell you plants take their pots back ? We always tell customers that if they've come from us, we're happy to recycle them (use them again!) it's green, and a good cost saving for us, particularly on the larger sizes which are quite expensive. Tree pots, say 20 lts and above can be £'s each, so you could even try and resell them to the nursery, or offer them back for a peppercorn amount!
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  Kerrie John-The garden design Co July 21, 2008 at 5:33pm

  Nick,
  I just rang the nursery to check that if they recycle. Was told that 10lt + they will use again, but not anything smaller. (Didn't like to ask if they would buy them back, I'm such a wimp). They are keen to recycle and know that it is inevitable, but not there yet.
  
  The pots must be made of a different plastic than say, milk cartons as they are not welcome in the public recycle stations. Perhaps we should lobby someone to make pots more eco friendly?
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  Phil Voice July 21, 2008 at 5:47pm

  I think that this is such an important garden and environmental issue that I will add a post the Landscape Juice blog in the morning to see if we cannot get something by the way of information on this topic.
  
  There used to be a company called Cotswold Plastics but searches seem to confirm that the website is dead.
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  Nick Steele July 21, 2008 at 7:26pm

  There was scheme launched a few years ago within the industry, I think really aimed at the bedding market because that sector generates such a huge volume of single-use carry trays, where retailers and nurseries were able to send these things back by the pallet load, and they were chipped and recycled. I haven't seen much about it recently, so don't know if its still running - we don't operate in that market so weren't involved.
  I think the Wyevale scheme is currently unique in recycling post-consumer pots, but as you say, its an important issue, and one that needs resolution; there must be zillions of once-used pots lurking in sheds and greenhouses around the country, and the numbers will continue to grow, until some means of recycling them is found.
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  Richard Lacey July 22, 2008 at 5:01pm

  Hi, we have the same problem. In our area the local Council tip, now privatised, charges £140 for an annual license and then £10 minimum tipping cost per load. We are landscaping our own plot so bring the rubbish home and compost it all. Mixed with horse manure from , would you believe an asthmatic horse that has to be bedded on hemp makes the most wonderful top dressing in 1/2 a season and boy does it make the plants grow and suppress weeds. So my advice is to get stuck in, be green and compost your own waste.
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  Kerrie John-The garden design Co July 22, 2008 at 5:17pm

  Great if you have the space available at home and an asthmatic horse, but what do you do with the pots?