Pot recycling & hygiene

Pot recycling & plant hygiene

Our nursery trys to re-use any pots and trays from plant orders purchased from us if they are returned in a good, clean condition. You may return them to the nursery by contacting the nursery managers and arranging a suitable time. 

We require that the pots are cleaned prior to return, otherwise it is another job for our volunteers. Washing needs to remove soil and weed seeds from the planting site. Please place tubes back into the plastic trays supplied with your order, in the individual squares, as we have found this is the easiest way to handle them. 

We give them a quick rinse with to remove slugs and snails prior to our disinfection process. 

Broken tubes and trays etc should be recycled by you as we do not have enough space to store them or time to recycle them.  Some great option exist via the PP5 plastic recycling program.  Wilsons Mitre 10 in Maddingley can accept domestic quantities.

Unfortunately we cannot accept any other pot sizes other than the ones we sell, as we have no use for them and no room to store them. Check with your local Shire or Council to see how you may recycle other old pots.

We make sure the pots are disinfected before reuse, use only quality potting mix and grow the plants on benches to reduce pest and disease issues.