The January issue of Garden Center Magazine, with its first article in the Project: Green series, is on its way to subscribers today. The article focuses on recycling by profiling how 3 different groups handle their programs. Missouri Botanical Garden has arguably the most successful -- and longest running -- horticultural pot program. Minnesota Nursery and Landscape Assoc. consulted MBG before starting its program, which relies on rewholesalers to allow year-long collection and recycling. Matterhorn Nursery in Spring Valley, N.Y., began a new wide-ranging recycling program just this past fall and reduced its landfill fee from $3,567.28 to $357.12, measured over the same 3-month span in 2006 and 2007.
--Carol
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