Once it’s all wet and pliable, take a clean glass container – a pasta sauce jar or a tall jam jar is ideal – and roll the ...

Can you recycle plastic plant pots? Find out how to properly recycle PP5 pots and ensure your gardening stays sustainable.

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Every time I’m planting in the garden, I'm reminded of a perennial problem - what to do with plastic pots? Most plastic plant pots are made from polypropylene as identified by the number 5 in the ...

Don’t just throw away those plastic pots your plants came in! Here are our six favorite ways to reuse and recycle plant pots. Take an old plastic pot and cut off the bottom.Push it partway into the ...

If you garden, chances are you’ve got a massive, growing clutter of plastic pots. It’s a waste to throw them out, but there are places you can have them recycled. If your town doesn’t accept this type ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

The plastic plant pot is the gardener's equivalent to the shopper's plastic carrier bag: we know we use too many of them - some 500 million each year in the UK - but they’re really cheap and they're ...

Gardeners can keep their gardens brimming with crowds of exotic and colourful plants, but some of their vessels may not quite match up. Gardeners seeking to brighten up their green spaces can opt for ...

Nine out of ten councils are failing to recycle plastic plant pots, a study reveals. The vast majority of the estimated 500million pots used in Britain each year end up being incinerated or sent to ...