What We Want

When you visit the Healthy Pots, Healthy Planet website, you can find an abundance of information: education explaining the problems with plastic, tools you can use to assess your plastic pot use and advocate for change, and more. Now we’ve added a new section to the Healthy Pots, Healthy Planet website that covers what stakeholders want to know when it comes to key points about existing alternatives, and what’s on the wish list for the future. Called What We Want, it’s a combination of what we want others to know about our wish list for alternatives, and what plastic pot consumers want to know about what’s available.

The section called User Surveys is intended to inform producers about the attributes most desired by users of plant pots. Manufacturers, this one’s for you. If our aim is to show market demand for more sustainable alternatives to petroleum-based plastic pots, then we should describe what we’d like to see. We plan to survey various types of plastic pot consumers in horticulture and share those results in the User Surveys section. Currently available are the results of a survey of landscape designers and landscape architects who have signed on to Healthy Pots, Healthy Planet, which considers qualities such as performance, cost, and environmental impact. We will post future survey results as they come in.

A second section within What We Want is called Pots with Promise. We get many inquiries about what’s available now from consumers who would like to make changes. Pots with Promise is a short guide describing what’s out there now, along with pointers to keep in mind. Spoiler alert: it’s not a simple switch, so read the guide.

A vital feature of the Healthy Pots, Healthy planet website has been there from the beginning:  our list of supporters. These are the individuals and organizations with horticultural and environmental interests who care deeply about having more sustainable alternatives to plastic plant pots. The strength of this list – which continues to grow – helps us in demonstrating market demand for alternatives. Explore the list at See Who's In. If you’re a signer, you can feel good about the company you keep; if you’re a manufacturer or grower, we hope this will be an incentive to produce or adopt more sustainable containers. Let’s work together to make more sustainable plant pots readily available, affordable, and the norm.