Plastic Pot Recycling
 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
Plastic Pot Recycling is scheduled to resume in April, 2012. 

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 138,000 pounds of horticultural waste in 2010.

To date, the Garden’s Plastic Pot Recycling program has saved over 980,000 pounds of plastic garden pots, cell packs and trays from landfills.

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