Trees For Canterbury manager Steve Bush with a cardboard milk carton, used to grow native seedlings for 30 years. Sloppy recycling has dealt the final blow to a popular Christchurch community programme that used old cardboard milk cartons to grow native plants. Trees For Canterbury announced its recycling scheme will end on May 10 after three decades of using the cartons to grow over a million native seedlings. “Local hero” Gregor MacDonald, who has Down syndrome, was a volunteer at Trees For Canterbury’s Ferrymead site for nearly 30 years – and cutting the milk cartons down to size was his favourite job. “I’m sure he’d be quite sad about it, it was a big part of his life for a long time.”After the collection bins were removed, cardboard milk cartons would need to go in the recycling bin.

Source: Stuff April 16, 2021 01:21 UTC