Recycling @gowanus nursery 

Thank you for your effort to sort through this, we wish that the future will bring more industry standards that prevent the proliferation of specialized pots and trays that are often 'single use'. We commit a lot of time organizing refuse and try to bring every piece of plastic back into re-use. It taxes our system when we have to deal with large amounts of pots that come from other places/vendors/growers so please be mindful when returning items. 

WHAT WE RETURN TO GROWERS FOR RE-USE:

Glover perennials 

Landcraft aka 'Hot plants' 

Emmas Garden 

We will take back the other items but please limit your returns to things bought here.

WHAT WE RE-USE

- 2.25” square pots (fondly referred to as 'smalls')

- rectangular trays with 15 divisions
- open 6 round trays

- traditional ribbed nursery pots 

- black square quart pots

- mesh soil bags – whatever size/color

- Fresh direct or other re-usable tote

Luckily a colleague with some extra space to store our plastic (for now), but we’re always looking for space to sort and store as we steadily increase our capacity to capture other landscape companies plastic returns.