Comments on: Scotts Miracle-Grow Sues Terracycle?

By: steve

steve — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:35:43 +0000

did they win the case?

By: woodinirgini

woodinirgini — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:05:14 +0000

SCOTTS now makes a liquid bottle fertilzer that it is marketing instead of the blue powdered stuff. it is marketed in bottles too. Similar to the terraccycle bottle. Not too many companies have the resources too keep DEFENDING themselves against NYSE listed SCOTTS in court.
Consequently most companies fold to the cost of the legal bill.
Scotts stuff is green in color, I don’t see any resemblance in color either, but then I am NOT a lawyer.

BTW I see Scotts priced its regular fertilizer at Costco right into the stratosphere.. Not many people buying it in Virginia, perhaps this year the Chesapeake Bay will come back to life with less nutrient runoff.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:56:55 +0000

Chemicals Yuck!Miracle Grow is so chocked full of chenicals I don’t see how it would be good for anything!The environmental cost of making the actual Miracle Grow product is pretty steep when you think about making your own compost tea that is fresh and cheap and actually way WAY better than anything you can buy!

By: Bentley

Bentley — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:22:50 +0000

Hey Paul,
The suit was actually settled out of court. Terracycle agreed to enough of the Scotts’ terms to make them happy.
Not sure about the E. coli claim – do you have evidence to back this up?

That said, I myself have always wondered how they prevent their teas from going anaerobic during storage.

I have tested Terracycle out for fun and was actually quite surprised how well it did in fact work.
Is it worth the money? I guess that’s up the the customer to decide. I’d rather make my own vermicompost and brew up a fresh batch of my own tea. Nevertheless, I’m still impressed with what Terracycle has accomplished, and the awareness they’ve helped to raise.

By: Paul Harris

Paul Harris — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:02:13 +0000

I hope Scotts wins the lawsuit personally! Terracycle is producing a crap product that does NOT work. It’s WAY over priced. It contains e coli. The “good” bacteria that is in the tea are dead by the time they are purchased by the consumer. The good bacteria need oxygen to live. They cannot get oxygen in a plastic bottle sitting on a store shelf. TerraCycle should not be able to sell there product. The avg. person is being taken advantage of when they purchase this product.

TerraCycle Plant Food… NPK (.03-.002-.02) what a JOKE!