I've spent a lot of time working on the yard the last few weekends, which explains the huge collection of plastic nursery pots in the back of the garage: round ones, square ones, black, orange and green ones.

Maybe you have a similar collection and you don't want to throw them in the trash. My friend, Tom Watson, King County's Eco-Consumer says you have a number of options

"In Seattle you can put them in with your curbside recycling. We're one of the few cities in the country where you can do that now."

If you live outside Seattle, you can take them to about 20 nurseries in the area. Those are listed on our King County Web site, the 'What Can I Do with It?' Web site."

Here are just a few of the places on the list: Molbaks, Bellevue Nursery, Flower World, AgriShop Lawn and Gardening Centers, Hopkins Nursery and Magnolia Garden Center.

"The nurseries will either reuse them or give them to a plastic recycler."

If you go to one of these collection centers, Tom says shake out the dirt and stack the containers by size.

Plastic flower pots cannot be recycled in Pierce or Snohomish counties.

Wild Thyme Nursery at 4416 South 74th in Tacoma (253-474-6233) accepts one gallon or larger flower pots. They do not accept pots with the 'Monrovia' label.

For more information

Plastic Nursery Pot Recycling