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Why plastic in this day and age?

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  Posted by punpun (U14553477) on Sunday, 8th May 2011

  Hi All,
  Ive been potting up hanging baskets and urns most of today and after i'di finished the work i did the cleaning up, tools awat etc and it was about this time i thought why in this day and age dont the seeds people do away with plastic and go for something we could put on the compost heap?
  
  After all we are being told to recycle recycle?

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  Posted by stuliz1123 (U13984185) on Sunday, 8th May 2011

  It's just a thought but I recycle all the pots I buy things in by using them to propergate or plant on my seeds and seedlings the next year (after cleaning them).
  
  Half my storage is for keeping these. OK, the other half of my storage is for my rather large jam jar collection (for my October chutney marathon and marmalade weekend). I got all upset in M&S yesterday when I realised that they have converted to plastic for some pickles.
  
  Sorry waffling.
  
  I'd like to see plants grown in pots you can just plant into the ground which will then decompose in the soil - a bit like the little ones you can buy to pot on with. They don't cost much to buy so the add on cost to the consumer would be very little and the ease would be the pay back.
  
  We bought some plants in a double strip (two rows of 3) which when watered I would have expected to have come out easily and then I would use the strips for my next seed planting but we just couldn't get the little ones out of the strips. Even when we cut them they just seemed to be glued in. We ended up with six slightly mangled plugs and a large pile of bits of black plastic - that's when I wish it could have been composted.
  
  Lizzie Bee

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  Posted by zoomer44 (U14019069) on Sunday, 8th May 2011

  Don't get me started on recycling Punpun our council have reached all the goverment targets as regards collection but I learnt this week our recycables are taken to another city for them to do what needs to be done and then returned and put in land fill because we don't have the facilities to recycle!
  
  I've often wondered why supermarkets don't provide recycled paperbags to carry your stuff home instead of plastic one's. There was a time when most stores gave you the option of taking your stuff home in a cardboard box, most had an area at the cash out where boxes were kept, not any more, in our world where the public are expected to be enviromentally freindly different rules seem to apply to stores!
  
  

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  Posted by stuliz1123 (U13984185) on Friday, 13th May 2011

  This saturday I can go and claim my free bag of compost from my council made from all my garden waste and food waste that I can't compost.
  
  Yippeee - one whole bag - however, they have used the rest for the beautiful park behind my house
  
  Lizzie bee

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  Posted by Happy Violas (U13861656) on Monday, 16th May 2011

  I think part of the problem with recyclable plant pots is that if they're strong enough to survive weeks of watering whilst the plant is growing they're a bit too robust to rot down in a reasonable time once planted in the ground. We use biodegradable pots at work and they have to be shredded in order to get them to compost commercially. Getting the right balance of robustness and yet still being compostable isn't easy

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