A visit to the garden centre used to involve a lot of empty plastic plant pots thrown out to landfill.

It was a terrible waste of plastic, but growers would not re-use the pots for fear of disease and they could not be recycled.

Now they can be. All of those plastic seedling punnets and plant pots can be put in our big recycling bins. Just check they are of grade five plastic – and most of them are – and wash them clean of dirt.

It all helps in our efforts to go easy on the earth.

Ann Graeme, Bellevue.