The manager of another business in the area called us the other day out of the blue to ask if we’d help them recycle a few hundred trays for potted plants (we run a small nursery). Branded pots will be taken back by the larger nurseries, generally speaking, but unbranded pots and nearly all trays are left to the chances of the municipality’s recycling program and the downstream problems. It’s just a small portion of the bigger problem, but it’s helping us bring food to folks in our community more easily, and we’ll be able to donate some of them to the volunteers at other plant sales for good causes so they can do the same. Plus it felt super awesome to have a total stranger reach out because they felt encouraged to keep things out of the waste stream.