Save the plants

[willow236]

I know this is not an AIBU but it's important!

As I'm working in the profound supermarket and know the procedure how they deal with not so good looking plants ( let them dry to death or try to sell them for a fraction of their original price, but who's gonna purchase a bad looking plant?:( )
Then those plants goes to the skip, no matter how much life there's life is in it.
Its just very saddened business.
The plants are living being and are treated as a thing, so please- rescue any plant from a store that looks bad, because this is it very last chance to be saved before skip.😔
And in most cases those plants can be rescued with a care and loving hand.

I care, OP. I am a plant rescuer too. I will try to watch out.

Can you say which store bins them? Name and shame the environmental wastage!

It’s bad putting organic materials into landfill as it causes more methane and leachate.

My son worked at Aldi, and when they'd throw out plants, they'd set them next to the dumpsters and people would come get them.

I buy plants all the time, especially from the rescue sections and dying sections are garden centers as there are some fantastic bargains to be had at huge fraction of the normal prices.

But that being said I don't buy plants from supermarkets I never have. First of all I don't think they should be selling them and won't support it, secondly their discount if ever I see them on dying plants is miniscule and most of the time they dead and dying plants are all still full price. Thirdly most of the plants are generic seeded or bulb varieties that are a quick pound item for profit alone.

I don't have space to save everything, so what I can save needs to be worth it.