Cranbourne residents have a new way to dispose of their old plastic plant pots.
The Bunnings store is part of a new trial recycling program.
The pots aren’t able to be recycled through kerbside programs because of contamination issues with cleaning and sorting processes.
So Bunnings Cranbourne is encouraging residents to bring in their plastic pots – no matter how old, dirty or broken – and drop them in a designated cage.
Polymer Processes will pick up and recycle the pots, and Garden City Plastics will turn them into new pots for use by greenlife growers.
A Garden City Plastics spokesperson said recycling plastic used less energy than producing it from raw materials.
The energy saving is about 56 gigajoules per tonne of plastic – the electricity used in two Australian homes in a year.
Bunnings Cranbourne complex manager Simon Taylor said they were excited to trial the new service.
“It’s a simple and effective way to do our bit for the environment,” he said.
