Q.Can I Actually Put Styrofoam In Dirt?
The answer, is what we already are aware of,— no. your writer Darcy is telling hundreds of thousands of people to put plastic in the dirt! It does not biodegrade, and is causing astronomical environmental damage. I’m sorry to say this is the most horrid article I have read all day, as I am a landscaper and I waste goes off my life PICKING THESE TINY PIECES OUT if the dirt before that have NW throw the dirt in their yard and rake it around. On windy days the dots fly everywhere. She lives on the beach too. So many of my clients poison the planet, as birds, pets, wildlife and fish consume the pellets. Shame. Please don’t tell another generation to do this, as it has been in countless old 50s And 60s magazines bad book from the plastic fever era and these old folks think they’re so clever putting that toxic waste in the ground… that’s why we’re in this mess, we’re shitting up a planet and you’re going to promote a stupid article like this? We’re going to have another 3 generations putting styrofoam into the one medium, earth, that it shouldn’t go, because it is a lazy SHORTCUT? Her article was bogus by the way, as someone who actually works in the garden I will tell you right now that if your soil is so dense it doesn’t drain, it’s because you bought the cheap stuff. Pearlite. Use it, it’s also light and cheap and is made for going in the ground! P.s. if your faux pot doesn’t have big enough, and as many holes, it will also not drain and by adding minutely absorbant plastic sponge to the swamp, it just adds a nice medium to turn into an air freshener that smells like the cesspool you’re making, indefinitely. Please consider taking the article down, it has harmful misinformation and earth is struggling enough already. At the end of the day it’s all rubbish, let’s pick up together okay? – the sadfaced lorax
Certified GKH Gardening Expert
The article explains how this is an old practice, and if you MUST use it, to use it as a filler BETWEEN containers. DO NOT use this as a substitute for perlite as it will be toxic to the soil.
