I love Skips...

[Geo]

Went to a well known garden centre today to buy some potting compost.
Ended up spending £45.00!

Had a look at the plastic pots..to expensive.

On the way out I saw a skip...

Had a look see..it was full of plant trays and plastic pots of all sizes.
Went back inside the garden centre asked if I could have some of the contents of the skip.

The manager says ..take as much as you want!!

Geo..

[Two_Sheds]

That should really be a letter to Head Office.
Can't they employ a lad to wash up and re-sell those pots?

[allotmentlady]

My OH gets really embarrassed with me, if i see something in a skip i can use, I am yell STOOOOPPPPPP, get out and investigate.......well its recycling!

[Snadger]

That should really be a letter to Head Office.
Can't they employ a lad to wash up and re-sell those pots?

Probably not this years fashionable colour of plastic!

[jackie j]

One of our garden centres has two outside in the car park and today I helped myself to loads of pots, saves me buying them. Anybody can add to it or take them away.

[Rhona]

We've had a skip outside for two weeks now - someone finally came to collect it after I nearly begged them (we'd only ordered it for one day!). Half of Sheffield has been through it, and as it was full when we'd finished, and it was taken away half empty (even with next door's carpet in it); quite a lot has been recycled!

[ailsasyl]

i got some trays from b and q they had them sitting in small cages with sign saying free take what you want!!

[NSB]

were not allowed to take stuff from our local garden centre bins - miserable devils

[NOG]

Wyvale have a pot recycling bin where you can help yourself.

I put a box of stuff outside the house last weekend with a sign on saying take waht you want. Came home to find nothing had been touched. Except the double glased ali door I had for the rebuild of the garage was gone.....oh well.

[lynda66]

i got my chook house door and a piece of work surface for a shelf in there from a skip round the corner, i'm always rooting just in case

[allotmentlady]

and my mother used to go about the old woman rooting through skips...bet she is turning in her grave at me

[jackie j]

It was wyevale that I got mine from none of the other centres do it.

[SlugLobber]

Where my sister lives, the police stop them from going through skips. Terrible!!

[Polly Fouracre]

Where my son lived in London there was an area at the end of his road where people took their unwanted items and whoever wanted them took them home. I thought that was a good idea. My son still has a lovely bicycle someone left there.

[yoanbob]

my garden centre resells old pots dirt cheap, you have to wash the dirt off yourself though.