Plastic Pot Recycling 2013
 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 140,000 pounds of horticultural waste in 2011.

To date, the Garden’s Plastic Pot Recycling program has saved over 1 million pounds of plastic garden pots, cell packs and trays from landfills.

The program is now in public/private partnership using the recycled plastic to produce lumber for raised gardening beds and retaining walls.

How the Program Works

 Plastic Pot Recycle

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.
 Plastic Pot Recycle Bring them to the Garden’s Monsanto Center or your nearest participating satellite garden center location.
 Plastic Pot Recycle We grind them up and market the chips to manufacturers of plastic lumber, retaining wall ties, or other recycled products!
 Plastic Pot Recycle 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.
Main Collection Site

April through October
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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

Additional Collection Sites

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

Hillermann Nursery & Florist
2601 East 5th Street
Washington, MO 63090
(636) 239-6729

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

St. Louis Composting
39 Old Elam Ave.
Valley Park, MO 63088
(636) 861-3344

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

Waldbart Nursery
5517 N. Highway 67
Florissant, MO 63034
(314) 741-3121