Market conditions in recent years have made the recycling of agricultural plastics increasingly difficult.
With every row of crops planted comes stacks of seed containers; every row harvested, a few more yards of silage cover film; every bushel moved, a few more inches of polymer twine.
Agricultural plastic can include planting trays and packaging, baling twine, and a vast array of plastic films used as silage covers and for other purposes. The basic concept, Geisinger said, is that agricultural plastics are simply expensive to recycle – due to both the cost of getting them from farms to collection points, and the cost of cleaning them.
“In the last, say, three to four years, things have really changed in terms of the market value of plastics,” Geisinger said. Recyclers that used to pay farmers for materials are now charging them to take the plastics, leaving farmers with no incentive to recycle.
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