Guide to Recycled Plastic Planters

Landscaping is an important aspect of outdoor space design. Whether it’s a school, town centre, park, or commercial space like a hotel or restaurant, recycled plastic planters are an excellent addition to your outdoor areas. Not only are they robust, but they also look good and will withstand the elements more effectively than other types of planter materials.

Used for both aesthetic reasons and practical purposes, you can utilise recycled plastic planters in various ways. And with the range of design choices available, there’s no limit to what you achieve with them. Here’s our guide to recycled plastic planter pots.

Where Are Recycled Plastic Planters Used?

We’ve provided these fantastic planters to many locations and businesses. Some of the most common types of customers and locations we’ve helped with recycled plastic planters include:

• Commercial buildings such as hotels and restaurants, cafes and bistros
• External office spaces
• Retail centres
• Garden centres
• Public parks
• City centres
• Village halls.

There’s no end to where and how you use your recycled plastic planters.

Many of our customers opt to use our recycled plastic planters in their own gardens.

But what if you want seating that’s there for guests waiting for the rest of their party? Or for smokers heading outside? In those cases, a stylish picnic table may take up a little more space than you can justify. The good news is that the solution is relatively easy.

A wide range of practical, hardwearing and comfortable park benches and seats are available. And when it comes to choosing the right hotel-quality outdoor furniture, or outdoor restaurant furniture for your establishment, it’s good to know that you have options.

From recycled plastic seats that will last for decades to cast iron seating for the traditional look and much more, you’re sure to find outdoor seating for your hotel or restaurant that matches your needs.

There are absolutely no limits to what you plant in your commercial planters. Choose from shrubs or bee-friendly pollinator plants, add a tree, or plant cascading flowers for the spiller effect. You can even check out our recycled plastic Vegetable Planter! For hotels, restaurants, and even schools, grow your own lettuce, chard, kale, onions or tomatoes.

We deliver our recycled plastic planters assembled, so you can start getting your fingers green as soon as they arrive. And because they’re both free draining and don’t require a liner, your maintenance levels are as low as can be.

If you were expecting a long guide and bullet points of maintenance tips, don’t panic. The fact is that you don’t need to carry out any maintenance on recycled plastic planters. You place them where you want them to go, and leave them to it. You don’t need to replace the liners or seal them every year, and they’ll look just as good decades from now as they were on the day of delivery.

We have a problem with plastic. It’s hard to cut down on our use of plastics, which means we send a lot of it to landfill sites. Once discarded, plastic takes a long time to break down, so those landfills keep on getting bigger. That’s where recycled plastic planters come in.

By breaking down and reusing discarded plastic, we reduce our environmental impact andsend less plastic to landfill sites. At Earth Anchors, our recycled plastic planters are made from 100% recycled plastic. So when you invest in these planters, you’re doing your bit to make the world just that little bit greener.

However, for commercial premises, your contribution to creating less plastic waste has another benefit: you can add some green credentials to your business or council marketing materials. And with consumers and the general public consistently looking for environmentally friendly organisations to align with, those green credentials can go a long way.

The 2021 global energy crisis doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere anytime soon and has a profound effect on the planet. You might wonder what recycled plastic planters have to do with an energy crisis. The fact is that when we reuse plastic, we’re using significantly less energy.

It takes a lot of energy to create plastic from scratch. There’s the sourcing, drilling, shipping, the energy used to turn raw materials into plastic, and then more shipping to your door. That’s a lot of energy.

With recycled plastic planters, there’s no drilling, no extraction of dwindling natural resources, and significantly less shipping. We’ve worked hard to source suitable materials for our recycled plastic planters. So not only are they highly durable, but they’ve also required significantly less energy to create than planters made from alternative materials.

Our recycled plastic planters are made from a 100% blend of mixed plastic waste that hasn’t been sent to a landfill. We use everything from drinks bottles to hay bale wrap, which is washed, chipped, and then extruded into the perfect recycled plastic planters.

Recycled plastic planters are amazingly tough. They’re sturdy, they will withstand even the most extreme weather conditions, and they won’t need to be replaced for many, many years. Our recycled plastic planters come with a 25-year guarantee, so they’re an investment you won’t need to worry about for over two decades!

When you invest in recycled plastic planters, you’re investing in planter pots that are UV-resistant and rot-free. They’re resistant to frost, so no matter how cold it gets, they won’t split or crack like planters made from other materials. You won’t need to seal them or varnish them either. The only maintenance you’ll ever have to do is maybe give them an occasional wipe if they get dirty and it doesn’t rain for a while!

We may be slightly biased, but our recycled plastic planters look good. We have a wide range of design options so that you can pick the perfect recycled plastic planters for your outdoor space. It’s all about what you want to achieve.

For example, many customers use our Blockade Planter to prevent vehicles from accessing pedestrian-only or customer-only areas. This is our largest planter available, and, like all of our recycled plastic outdoor furniture, they’re rot, rust and frost-proof.

So there’s a practical element to using the right planter in the right place. But there’s an aesthetic element too. Something like the Hive Planter can be used alone and adds a real touch of class to your park or outdoor areas. But you can also place them next to each other for an amazing hive effect. You can even choose the colour of the lip!

Let’s not overlook the fact that your recycled plastic planter can have a practical benefit too. The design of our Planter Seat means that you get the classic planter benefits combined with seating! So if you’re using your planters in a pub, hotel, or restaurant, your customers have additional seating to enjoy. You can extend your Planter Bench with add-ons so that your seating can be as long as you need it to be.

Put simply, the design of recycled plastic planters means that you can transform your space to match your needs.

Planters made from material other than recycled plastic often need a liner added. That liner will have to be replaced occasionally, which can be a massive and time-consuming maintenance task. It’s also an ongoing cost. With recycled plastic planter pots, there’s no need to do any of that.

All of our recycled plastic planters come with a pre-fitted base plate, so you don’t need any liner. With wood, ceramic, or metal planters, the liner is there to help protect the planter and extend its lifespan. Those liners will protect the planter from the constant soil moisture, which is especially damaging to wooden planters, which will rot quickly without a liner.

With recycled plastic planters, you can avoid the ongoing costly and laborious task of emptying the soil, replacing the liner, and refilling the soil and plants. And with a lifetime guarantee of 25 years, you’ll save a lot of work and expense.

That’s right! We don’t just make our planters from recycled plastic. We make sure you can recycle them. A general rule of thumb is that most plastics can be recycled between seven and nine times before they break down and become unviable. That’s a lot more than, say, paper, which you can only recycle between four and six times before it becomes unusable.

So even if your recycled plastic planter doesn’t last longer than our 25-year guarantee (most do last longer), it can still be recycled. Again, this reduces landfill impact and energy use. There are simply no environmental downsides to using recycled plastic planters.

Most of our recycled plastic planters come with personalisation options. You can have your business name and logo engraved on one or two sides or the name of your council. It’s easy to add this option to your order but get in touch if you have any questions about personalisation.

All of our unique recycled plastic planters will save you a lot of time and money on maintenance and repair. Wooden planters are highly vulnerable to rot and can warp, crack, fade, and even splinter without a lot of care. Even hardwood planters aren’t as durable and hassle-free as recycled plastic planters.

Even if you choose one of our more brightly coloured recycled plastic planters, like the Rainbow Cube Planter , being UV-protected and weather-resistant means those bright colours won’t fade. That UV protection also means your planter will stay cooler even on hot days, saving you even more money because your soil won’t dry out quickly, so you won’t have to water as often — even on the hottest days.

When you’re choosing planters for your commercial or public sector space, recycled plastic is always the way to go. They simply have too many benefits. At Earth Anchors, we’re specialists in recycled plastic planters and ensure only the highest quality planters with a 25-year guaranteed lifespan.

If you’re unsure which of our recycled plastic planter designs is right for your space, simply get in touch . We can talk you through your options based on your end goal, what your planters will be used for, and how best to optimise your outdoor space. Let’s work together to make your park, playground, restaurant patio or office exteriors no-maintenance, and as aesthetically pleasing as they can be.