First-ever gardening plastics recycling program
There’s a new kind of plastics recycling program on the horizon. With plans to curb plastic containers, one of North America’s largest horticultural trade associations, Landscape Ontario, is working to create the first nationwide post-consumer horticultural plastics recycling program in the world.
Water bottles and plastic bags top the list of targets, which includes plastic garden pots, trays, tags, irrigation pipes and greenhouse poly. Pots, trays and tags would be collected directly from consumers at centres right across Canada.
Stephen Murdoch of Milton, ON shares with us that Landscape Ontario’s more than 2,000 members are focused on promoting and fostering a favourable environment for the advancement of the horticultural industry in Ontario. The association is investigating program funding and partnerships with recycling companies, pot manufacturers, garden centres, nurseries and growers.
Landscape Ontario will be at Garden Expo from October 21 – 22 at the Toronto Congress Centre .
Tags: garden, landscaping, plastics, recycling
September 25th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
It would be so refreshing to see an actual analysis of how much energy is saved, vs how much energy is consumed due to recycling. The truth of it is, that recycling only makes sense for copper and aluminum. And that is of course because producing these metals is so expensive and energy comsuming in the first place. Other than that, it is a waste of time and energy. The best possible recycling program is one that exctracts as much energy as possible and converts it into another form of energy. In other words, high effeciency incineration. After all, plastics are a fossil fuel product so why not recover as much latent energy as we can and turn it into electrical power? Beats damming another river, or putting thousands of new trucks on the roads to cart our recyclables off to the land fill. If you reallly care about the planet, you can also continue using the old incandesent light bulb. Those cute little cfl bulbs contain mercury.