[SustainableTompkins] An opportunity to recycle your unwanted plastic pots

[Marian Brown]

Wondering what to do with all those plastic pots and flats from plants 
you purchased this spring? Have a growing mountain of plastic pots in 
your garage? If so, here's an environmentally friendly solution.

Flower Pot Swap / Recycling Weekend
Saturday, June 28 and Sunday, June 29

Bring your pots to the Cooperative Extension Office at 615 Willow Avenue 
anytime on Saturday or Sunday.

(Take Route 13 North or South, get off at Dey Street, turning toward the 
residential neighborhood, then go immediately right onto Lincoln Street, 
which dead-ends into Willow Avenue at Cascadilla Creek).

Instructions:
Leave your pots in the designated area off the CCETC main parking lot on 
Willow Avenue,
Only nursery pots, seedling flats, plastic trays, and cell packs will be 
accepted. NO PVC.
Sign in and let us know about how many containers you brought.
Take away as many pots as you can use.
Bedding plant and nursery growers are invited to come select pots if you 
can reuse them in your business.

On Monday morning, June 30, all pots and flats that are remaining will 
be put into a truck and taken to Ultimate Recycled Plastics in Port 
Gibson NY, where they will get a new life.

ABSOLUTELY NO POTS will be accepted after 9am June 30.

This program is sponsored by the Cornell Cooperative Extension of 
Tompkins County Horticulture Program in cooperation with Tompkins County 
Solid Waste Management Division, and Ultimate Recycled Plastics.