Our Eco Commitment
By choosing us you are supporting our eco endeavours and for that, we thank you.We understand that protecting the environment is important to everyone so here at greengate, we have partnered with some special companies in order to grow sustainability in Calgary.
We recognize that for now, the use of plastic plant pots is pretty much a necessity, but we are working with suppliers in order to come up with better solutions. We see a day where all plants come in bio-degradable pots. We look forward to experimenting with the many types of solutions.
Until then - for recycling your plant pots and trays:
• Remove dead plants and dirt from the plant container and rinse it out first.
• Containers marked with a recycling symbol 1-7 should be recycled in your blue cart or at a community recycling depot.
• Containers that aren't marked with a numbered recycling symbol belong in your black cart as garbage.
This season you will still be able to purchase at cost, reusable shopping bags. You can also use our greengate plastic or trunk liners since they are now biodegradable. Also, our own cardboard plant trays and day to day paper needs are made of post-consumer recycled content.
Recycling paper and cardboard is not enough, so we have done our best to find uses for other shipping materials. Wooden pallets that have outgrown their usefulness are recycled into wood chips which you may obtain by purchasing Recycled Red Mulch right here at our store.
The use of weed and feed products are about to be banned in Alberta. We chose to discontinue selling granular weed and feed almost a decade ago, so now have eco-options available for you.
These are just some examples of how greengate is doing its best to reduce its footprint. By choosing us, you are supporting these eco endeavours, and for that we thank you.