Recycling artificial plants and grass
This blog focuses on what we do as a company to safeguard the environment. We are keen to ensure that when any of our products have served their purpose, they are properly disposed of.
Love it or loathe it, artificial plants and artificial grass are appearing more and more on the high street, in interior design, and in landscaping projects too.
The benefits of using faux plants in this busy day and age are numerous. Low maintenance, no water wastage, no nitrogen leaching into watercourses, and of course they offer some of the biophilic benefits of living plants but without the need for special indoor lighting. As with most things in life, for every advantage, there is a disadvantage and one of the things that put people off using replica plants is the use of plastic. Sending plastic to landfills needs to stop.
Plastic is not your enemy – disposing of it wrongly is.
Plastic, polyethylene, polyvinyl, call it what you will – it doesn’t rot down the same way that plant material does. It cannot be digested by the bacteria that allow natural materials to be returned to the soil. In some ways, that’s good. Your faux plants will not attract bugs or disintegrate over time. They’ll always look fresh and vibrant.
All of our products can be recycled. In fact, we ensure that as many as possible of our artificial plants and surfaces are made from recycled materials too.
However, unfortunately, the UK recycling industry is still in its infancy, and not every recycling centre has the facilities to deal with every type of plastic.
Help with recycling our products
At the time of writing, our products hold (in varying proportions):
| Recycle number | ||
| PETE | Polyethylene Terephthalate | 1 |
| HDPE | High Density Polyethylene | 2 |
| PVC | Polyvinyl Chloride | 3 |
| LDPE | Low Density Polyethylene | 4 |
We have pledged to ensure that our products are disposed of responsibly.
If your faux foliage or artificial grass was supplied by Green as Grass and your local recycling centre is not yet able to recycle it, we strongly urge you to get in touch with us before you consider throwing it away.
We will help you to find a recycling centre and if all else fails, we will help you to return the products to us so that we can make sure they are recycled by a specialist company.
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