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Our Plastic Bag Recycle Scheme is here!

Posted on 7 October 2025

You can now recycle your bags with us!

Our new plastic bag recycle scheme is here. We are working with our stockists to provide a place for customers (and anyone) to do some good for the environment.

We now have two locations: Rougham Hall Nurseries Plant Centre in Barrow, near Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, and Darwin Nurseries and Farm Shop, in Cambridge (near the Airport): you can drop off your used compost bags there in our designated bins.

Scroll down for a step-by-step on what you need to do in order to get your bags recycled, and what happens after!

Our Field Compost drivers are also happy to take back any compost and builders bags you have used! Just ask them when we next deliver to you!

We will recycle any plastic compost bags and any polypropylene (builders) bags - not just ours!

Step 1: Use your compost

Pretty simple; use your topsoil, compost, mulch or lawn dressing in your garden.

Step 2: Empty your bags of any loose material

Empty your polypropylene and small bags of any residual compost or soil at the bottom – just tip it upside down and shake it to empty!

Step 3: Head to one of our designated stockists

We have recycling bins located at RHN Plant Centre in Barrow, Bury St. Edmunds, and at Darwin Nurseries & Farm Shop in Cambridge

Step 4: Fold the bags and place them in the box

Its as simple as that! This is where your role in our recycle scheme ends and we take over!

Folding the bags and laying them flat just means that more bags will fit in the box.

Please be aware that we cannot accept grass seed bags or bags once containing chemicals and fertilisers.

Step 5: Field Compost will collect and empty the box

When the bin gets full, our Field Compost lorries will return to our stockists RHN Plant Centre or Darwin Nurseries and collect your used bags to be recycled.

Step 6: We will sort the bags and bail them.

Our team will sort the bags into the two different types of plastic.

We will then use our bailers to compact the bags to an easily transportable size (and it also saves space!).

Step 7: Then we will get the bags recycled!

After we have collected enough bags (a lorry load), they will be taken to a processing plant.

The small plastic compost bags will be turned into pallet wrap (which is what we use on our pallets).

The large polypropylene bags will be turned back into raw materials to be used again, e.g., as another polypropylene bag, farm wrap or pallet wrap.

Plastic pallet wrap used to cover our small bags for delivery

If you are a stockist or business based in East Anglia, and are interested in being involved in our recycle scheme, please contact us at sales@fieldcompost.co.uk.

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