I love Skips...

[carlseawolf]

i get my pots from a friend who works for a nursery that does the planting for our coucil and they just bin the pots after they have used them because there not allowed to re-use them.

[Glutton4...]

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!

I was just about to post a reply, when I read this one;

...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.

Should have hired a skip Nog!

[RedThorn]

GLUTTON! lol thanks you made me laugh!

Our homebase has a box by the exit wit ha sign to help yourself....

[Claire72]

Think I might nip into my local homebase tomorrow, think they do that too, and I am so low on plant pots since I have been taking mine to the school for their planting.
do you think yoghurt pots would be deep enough? or the tirimisu pots from Aldi? we get through a few of these every week.
Wonder if we could use baked beans tins? only once I know, but isn't reusing better than recycling, isn't it?

[Glutton4...]

The really daft thing is I threw away LOADS of pots and trays and other seed-planting stuff when we moved last summer. Now I need it all and can't afford it.

Off to trawl the skips and car parks of North Essex ...