Sustainability Products and Practices
Sustainability is a journey. We hope you'll join us in taking steps towards improving our environment and communities.
Weston Nurseries has been in the "green business" for over 85 years, providing homeowners and landscape professionals with top-quality plants that beautify our surroundings and help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the air we breathe. One of our new sustainability initiatives is recovering and recycling plastic pots. You can help us reduce the amount of plastic in landfills by bringing your used pots to the Garden Center. Some pots will be re-used at Weston Nurseries; other pots will be transported to a recycling facility and processed into new nursery pots.
Please remove soil, sand, mulch and rocks and rinse off the pots before bringing them to the Garden Center and placing them in the designated bins.
We accept two pots types:
1. PE #2 HDPE (High Density Polyethelene): "blow molded" round and square containers have a hole in the middle of the bottom and often have ribbed sides. The wall is very thin and the pots have a softer lip. We accept 1/2 gal. to 10 gal. sizes, any color, with or without printing.
2. PP #5 PP (Polypropelyne): "injection molded" round and square containers have a harder/thicker wall with smooth sides. We accept 1/2 gal. to 35 gal. and up sizes, any color, with or without printing.
Some of Our Sustainability Products:
1. NE Rain Barrels, "the Blue Rain Barrel for the Green Owner". Attach them to a roof downspout to collect storm run off. Made from recycled plastic barrels.
2. Composters that turn yard waste into organic matter to improve your soil.
3. A broad line of natural products including Bradfield Organics Fertilizers.
• Safe for people, pets and pasture animals
• Clean, convenient and easy to use
• Non-polluting, safe to use around lakes and streams
• Perfect for lawns, trees, shrubs and pastures, as well as vegetable, fruit, herb, flower and rose gardens
• Designed for long-lasting results
• Alfalfa-based with other natural ingredients including molasses, sulfate of potash and meat meal
4. Soji Solar Lanterns. Just 8 hours of daylight charges the lantern for 6-8 hours for decorating your patio or garden at night.
5. Biodegradable Indoor Eco Pots made from rice can disposed of in landfills or they can be composted.
6. For water conservation:
• Soaker hose systems
• Plants that require little water once established
• Mulch, a superb natural product for holding moisture in the soil
7. Our own compost for use on lawns and in gardens
8. Reusable aluminum sports water bottles
Some of Our Sustainability Practices:
1. Water for our operations is recycled by a catch basin system that drains it back into our ponds.
2. Drip irrigation over 6 acres cuts our water usage from watering overhead by 80%.
3. The majority of our plants come from in-state, thereby minimizing carbon footprint on plants we sell.
4. We turn organic by-product into compost for sale.
5. We provide mulch chips to the biofuel industry.
6. We recycle our office paper products.