meadow croft garden centre Home About Us Departments Events Mini Golf Opening Hours News Contact Us Plan Your Visit History Environmental Policy Plant Guarantee Supporting Our Community Work For Us Legal SHOP NOW BASKET Home Environmental Policy | Meadow Croft Garden Centre Environmental Policy We are commited to reducing our carbon footprint across all of our sites. We have invested in renewable energies, reduce our 'plant miles' where possible and recycle as much as we can. We are also keen to keep our 'plant miles' to a minimum, so not only do we grow a large portion of our plants on-site, but the rest are grown within a 100 mile radius of Meadow Croft. Our Plastic Bag Re-using & Cardboard Box Re-using Schemes We don't hide the fact that we don't like to produce our own plastic bags. We have a plastic bag re-using scheme in-store. You'll find a tub at the tills with a few crumpled specimens inside, we make no apology for the fact they have been re-used! We recycle all boxes that are delivered to us by letting you use them to take home plants and products. You'll find the big cardboard box bins just behind the tills. We also use recyclable straws in our restaurant. Renewable Energy Over 6.5 hectares of glasshouses are heated by biomass boilers. Biomass boilers are fueled by a renewable energy source and use quick growing trees and grasses for fuel instead of traditional fossil fuels. We grow our own biomass fuel too, in fact 80 acres of it are grown and used in our boilers. We have also replaced our glasshouse lighting to LED to reduce energy-loads. Plant Miles Approximately 75% of the garden plants sold at Meadow Croft are grown on our nurseries just across the road. This means we only use approximately 130 delivery miles in a year for 75% of our plants. Another 7.5% of plants are grown locally in Battlesbridge and 96% of our garden plants are English and grown within 100 miles of Meadow Croft. Recycling We recycle 95% of our waste. We recycle approximately 46428 Kg of waste each year. 8780kg of that is cardboard 2928kg is food 784kg is glass 33936kg of general waste, including paper, polystyrene and plastics. All plastic pots and containers on the nursery are recycled and as Expanded Polystyrene is 100% recyclable and received in bulk deliveries to the nursery, we are able to back-fill the delivery lorries with clean, used polystyrene to take away for recycling. ABOUT US Meadow Croft Garden Centre is a family-run centre based in the heart of Essex, we have been growing plants for 80 years. If you are looking for gardening inspiration, our trained horticultural staff are happy to help. All of our plants are either grown on our nurseries or in the UK, meaning they are already hardy to our climate. As well as the main garden centre, we also have an on-site restaurant with an outdoor undercover patio area for alfresco dining, a well-stocked houseplant department, garden furniture, gifts, homeware and even a mini-golf course. And not forgetting our indoor German Christmas Market, which returns each November. Meadow Croft Garden Centre, registered in England and Wales 750120 Call us 01245 320314 QUICK LINKS Home Garden Centre Restaurant Mini Golf Work for Us Contact Us Legal Dog Policy Returns Policy Terms and Conditions ©2021 Meadow Croft Designed by gasmarktasty Built by Ahead4