South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center invites the public to celebrate Texas Recycles Day, sponsored by H-E-B, November 15-17.  Each visitor who brings a plastic bottle or single-use plastic bag from any retailer receives FREE ADMISSION that day to the Botanical Gardens, normally a $10 value for adults! 

“Preserving the environment is a mission of both H-E-B and the Botanical Gardens.  Visitors can help conserve and protect “Our Texas, Our Future” as they enjoy the Botanical Gardens & Nature Center’s many floral exhibits and entertaining Butterfly House, Treehouse, Resident Reptiles and tropical parrots,” emphasized Dr. Michael Womack, STBGNC Executive Director.

 H-E-B’s Recycling Operation

 Visitors’ recyclable items will be placed in a special recycling bin after check-in; and they can learn how H-E-B’s across their market areas process reusable items brought to their stores, placing them in salvage trucks going to the San Antonio H-E-B Returned Goods Center, where partners sort items for bailing. Bails are sent to recycling vendors, rendered into plastic pellets to produce new plastic products i.e. “Field & Future” trash bags, composite building materials, more.

H-E-B has recycled more than 50 million pounds of plastic bags since 2004!  Customers are urged to return their single-use plastic bags to the store, since the City of Corpus Christi no longer recycles them.  For more about the company’s recycling efforts and sustainability commitment, please visit https://ourtexasourfuture.com/plastic-bag-recycling/