This summer Loblaw’s became one of the first major retailers to recycle
pots and flats in Canada. Prior to the announcement the company worked
to make its pots from over 50 per cent post-consumer recycled plastic.
Starting this year, customers were invited to return their rinsed pots,
flats and even plastic tags to its garden centre between May and July.
Through these efforts, Loblaw’s hopes to divert up to 600,000 kgs of
plastic from landfills or approximately three million pots and flats.
What are you doing to recycle all that plastic that passes through your centre? Share your ideas and suggestions (or frustrations!) by commenting on our blog.
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Written by Kevin Good on 2008-11-20 15:43:09
Of course you want to take back any and all plastic. Your guest is in your parking lot at least one more time than the statistics show.
Just make sure they know whats on sale, what event is coming up, what season is on the horizon. Its contact and it is relieving for your guest,(one less thing for them to worry about) what a time for suggestive sales. |
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Written by Maple Leaf Nurseries on 2008-09-05 16:09:19
As a wholesale nursery we go through large volumes of plastic pots and trays at different times. They are palatized and a local recycle co picks them up at no charge. |
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Written by Guest on 2008-08-13 08:02:10
We used to take any pots or trays back until we found that we were taking hours to go through garbage bages full and having to sort out sizes. Then becoming extremely frustrated when 75% of it was purchased somewhere else and we also found that customers would clean out their garages and we would have old outdated ceramic or broken clay pts as well as styrafoam containers thrown in with it too. Now we have a sign posted that states that we do not take any pots or trays back and we only get the odd bit of stuff left in various areas. I think Loblaws are smart to say they are recycling old pots and trays but are all going to be recycled? Not all of it is recycleable. I am curious as to what they do with the stock they have left over at the end of the season. Do they dump it all into a dumpster, plant and pot and all to go the dump like all of the other chainstores do? |
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Written by Guest on 2008-08-10 12:31:45
We allow customers to return #1 pots or larger and we re-use them to pot up nursery stock. Empty flats are piled according to size in our receiving area and growers can help themselves when they are here dropping off deliveries. Any excess we take to the nearest recycle depot which is 45 mins away. It would be great if there was a recycling drop off closer. Despite signs asking people not to, we often get people dumping their garbage pots outside our gates after hours which is very frustrating. |
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