What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Show, the Epic

Gardening Podcast, the Epic Gardening Radio Hour. We can call it whatever we like.

Today we're talking about the plastics that are safe for gardening.

Now a lot of people who listen to this show in particular are hydroponic growers.

So you use a lot of plastic in hydroponics in most setups.

And the question then becomes, OK, well, what types of plastic

are safe and which are unsafe?

So this is the research that I've done. I could be wrong about some

finer points and finer details but I'm gonna give you an overview of what I've found

out. So you know you see those little triangles

with the numbers in between the arrows.

That is what the type of plastic,

and there are seven different types.

So let's get into it. Plastic type number one is P.E.T.

Also known as polyethylene teraphthalate. That's a hard word to say. It's pH. There's four consonants in a row. Why did they do that? I have no idea.

It's one of the most common plastics you're going to find. It's in food items like soda

bottles, jars of peanut butter, etc. One of the issues with this type of

plastic is that it tends to take on the aroma of the food that is stored in

it. It's also one of the most commonly

recycled plastics and is almost exclusively used for single use items since it can

break down when exposed to long periods of time, light, or heat.

So if you're paying attention, that means it may not be the best choice for your

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