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Plastic Pots Recycling Sets Record in Missouri
MISSOURI BOTANIC GARDEN
5th November 2007
The Missouri Botanical Garden set a new recycling record in 2007 with the collection of over 100,000 lbs. of horticultural plastic originally destined for landfills. The Garden’s successful Plastic Pot Recycling program in St. Louis is the most extensive public garden recycling program in the United States, collecting over 300 tons of waste in the past 10 years. The “green” initiative is led by the Garden’s William T. Kemper Center for Home Gardening, which organizes the yearly public collection of plastic garden pots, polystyrene cell packs and trays on six weekends in May and June. Pots and trays are sorted by plastic type and granulated on-site into small chips that are easily transported for recycling. The plastic regrind is sold back to consumers as retaining wall ties and timbers for use in landscaping projects. The plastic timbers are water and pest resistant and can be cut and drilled similar to wooden lumber. They outlast traditional wooden railroad ties that have a lifespan of only ten to 15 years. Read more on the Landscape Management Blog Conservation and Sustainability for Human Well-beingPlants provide food, medicine, clothes, shelter and the raw materials from which innumerable other products are made. Thus plants are an essential resource for human existence. Their very importance to human well-being is putting many species are at risk, as levels of consumption rise. The Gift Shop as a Site for Education for SustainabilityThis workshop developed the theme of the social production or construction of nature by suggesting to participants that the botanic garden gift shop could be a site of education for sustainability if there was careful attention to the origins and presentation of the goods on sale. Sustainability in the Botanic GardenChanging the Face of a Botanic Garden by Tackling the Concept of Sustainability head on: the Cambridge University Botanic Garden and our Learning CurveFind Out MoreSustainable Sites Initiative |
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