Missouri Botanical Garden: Events at MBG

Hours Weather Support the Garden

Main Collection Site
Program resumes May 3, 2010
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Missouri Botanical Garden
Monsanto Center
4500 Shaw Boulevard
St. Louis MO 63110 [Map]
(314) 577-9441

To inquire about plastic lumber made from the pots, or to place an order please call:

Kemper Center for Home Gardening
(314) 577-9441

Pick up on Wednesdays
between 9 a.m. and noon
at the
Monsanto Center
4500 Shaw Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63110

Additional Collection Sites
Program resumes May 3, 2010

Bowood Farms
4605 Olive St.
St. Louis, MO 63108
(314) 454-6868

Crabapple Cove Nursery
6961 Telegraph Road
St. Louis, MO 63129
(314) 846-4021

Garden Heights Nursery
1605 S. Big Bend Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63117
(314) 645-7333

Greenscape Gardens
2832 Barrett Station Road
Ballwin, MO 63021
(314) 821-2440

Hartke Nursery
1030 N. Warson Road
St. Louis, MO 63132
(314) 997-6679

Rolling Ridge Garden Center
60 N. Gore
Webster Groves, MO 63119
(314) 962-3311

Sherwood's Forest Nursery &
Garden Center
2651 Barrett Station
Ballwin, MO 63021
(314) 966-0028

Summer Winds/
Timber Creek Nursery
54 Clarkson Road
Ellisville, MO 63011
(636) 227-0095

Thies Farm & Greenhouse
4215 N. Hanley Road
St. Louis, MO 63121
(314) 428-9878

University Gardens
8130 Delmar Blvd.
University City, MO 63130
(314) 863-1700

To inquire about plastic lumber made from the pots, or to place an order please call:

Kemper Center for Home Gardening
(314) 577-9441

Pick up on Wednesdays
between 9 a.m. and noon
at the
Monsanto Center
4500 Shaw Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63110

Plastic Pot Recycling
Program resumes May 3, 2010

Plastics Accepted:
Cell packs
Hanging baskets
Trays
Pots of all sizes

Not Accepted:
No household plastic
No food plastic
No clay pots
No soil
No metal hangers
No plastic bags

You can help reduce the amount of horticultural waste in landfills by recycling your plastic garden pots, polystyrene cell packs and trays at the Garden and other locations throughout St. Louis City and County.

The Missouri Botanical Garden operates the most extensive public garden recycling program in the nation. The Plastic Pot Recycling program collected a record 130,000 pounds of horticultural waste in 2009.

To date, the Garden’s Plastic Pot Recycling program has saved over 800,000 pounds, or 400 tons, of plastic garden pots, cell packs and trays from landfills.

How the program works

	Collect and sort your plastic gardening containers into cell packs, pots, and trays. Please shake soil and rocks out of containers and remove all metal hangers, rings or other foreign materials.
	Bring them to the Garden’s Monsanto Center or your nearest participating satellite garden center location.
	We grind them up and market the chips to manufacturers of plastic lumber, retaining wall ties, or other recycled products!
	The plastic timbers are water and pest resistant and can be cut and drilled similar to wooden lumber. They outlast traditional wooden railroad ties that have a life span of only ten to 15 years.