Meijer Sheboygan customers are being encouraged to bring their plastic gardening containers to any Meijer Garden Center – regardless of where they originated – so they can be recycled and not contribute to the global plastic problem.
Meijer Garden Center Merchant Jeff Lynch said they began collecting containers used to house seedlings for sale eight years ago, and have since recycled 1,825 tons of that plastic, keeping it out of landfills. In addition, recycling plastic uses 88 percent less energy and cuts emissions by 71 percent over that produced making new containers.
Those gardening containers, along with plastic bags already being collected, have been turned into such things as a new type of pavement for a more durable parking lot at Meijer’s Holland, Michigan supercenter. That project alone took the equivalent of nearly a million plastic grocery bags out of the waste cycle.
In addition to plastic collection, Meijer just donated $1 million to the charitable arm of the Council of the Great Lakes Region to clean up Midwestern beaches and waterways.
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