Alternatives to farm plastics

[Exfarmer]

It is being pushed as more environmentally friendly, but I see little evidence it breaks down quicker when discarded

 

[Cowslip]

do we still make paper? have we still got a paper mill here still in the UK, making not artisan paper but the mass paper such as used in the newspaper industry, or office work or has this now fallen to chinease imports? Answers please?

There is a large papermill in sittingbourne, Kent.

 

[The Seeker]

in terms of plastic per gram of product sold id bet farmers were very low on the list of polluters, i got my shopping delivered the other day and EVERYTHING is single double or triple coated in plastic most unnecessarily car rubber, most stuff from amazon - plastic , all video games on cd plastic ,dvds forever more, oil, dont even get me started on the cleaning products that are not only fairly unnecessary but also coated in plastic that also stated bad for marine life as its made to be washed down the drain ... the list goes one - WE ARE THE GOOD GUYS

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

There is a large papermill in sittingbourne, Kent.

It uses large quantities of recycled paper and cardboard. The wood pulp I believe comes in from Scandinavia.

The waste from the plant is land spread and gets ploughed in. it is very high in lime.

 

[Cowslip]

It uses large quantities of recycled paper and cardboard. The wood pulp I believe comes in from Scandinavia.

The waste from the plant is land spread and gets ploughed in. it is very high in lime.

Used to live very close to it, even had a little railway

 

[Agri Spec Solicitor]

Why can’t all the bale wrap of all colours not be recycled into……bale wrap? Personally I would not mind if it was different colours or striped. I know the crows won’t mind?
Same for the net?
Or is it recycled already? I don’t know.

 

[flowerpot]

Magazines are delivered in paper wrappers now - but isn't that chopping down trees to make paper, plus all the water, plus the transport as paper is heavier than plastic.

Some wrappers are made of a material that can be composted, maybe potato starch or similar? But if silage wrap was made out of such material would it degrade and leave the silage inside exposed to the air?

I collect bags of feed and have discovered that paper sacks get damp when it is raining. Plastic does have its uses.

 

[Exfarmer]

Compostable plastic , just does not work, have spent the last 18 months pulling those magazine wrapper and supermarket bags out of my composting bins. They do not break down!

 

[betweenthelines]

There is a large papermill in sittingbourne, Kent.

D S Smith -makes paper and cardboard-well into recycling

 

[icanshootwell]

Magazines are delivered in paper wrappers now - but isn't that chopping down trees to make paper, plus all the water, plus the transport as paper is heavier than plastic.

Some wrappers are made of a material that can be composted, maybe potato starch or similar? But if silage wrap was made out of such material would it degrade and leave the silage inside exposed to the air?

I collect bags of feed and have discovered that paper sacks get damp when it is raining. Plastic does have its uses.

Same buying cement, much better in plastic bags, soon goes off in paper unless stored in a very dry place.

 

[slackjawedyokel]

in terms of plastic per gram of product sold id bet farmers were very low on the list of polluters, i got my shopping delivered the other day and EVERYTHING is single double or triple coated in plastic most unnecessarily car rubber, most stuff from amazon - plastic , all video games on cd plastic ,dvds forever more, oil, dont even get me started on the cleaning products that are not only fairly unnecessary but also coated in plastic that also stated bad for marine life as its made to be washed down the drain ... the list goes one - WE ARE THE GOOD GUYS

I would imagine that Supermarkets are the good guys, once they’ve passed the responsibility for all their plastic products back up the food chain to farmers

 

[Rod Dumbreck]

Same buying cement, much better in plastic bags, soon goes off in paper unless stored in a very dry place.

Here here, so if we use plastic where its needed, instead of just wrapping everything in it. I bought a sledge hammer, entirely encased in plastic to protect it on its perilous journey, obviously without the slightest idea what I was going to do with the thing when I got it home

 

[Will Wilson]

Silage clamps use alot less a lot less plastic than bales and you can reduce the waste you just need to design them better ;-)

 

[Nearly]

It uses large quantities of recycled paper and cardboard. The wood pulp I believe comes in from Scandinavia.

The waste from the plant is land spread and gets ploughed in. it is very high in lime.

The reps are careful to say it has a 'lime equivalent'. It's alkaline, probably a bit of excess caustic soda from the washing process.
Good stuff though.

 

[Overby]

I wonder what happened here :

Edible bale wrap developed to reduce livestock farm waste - Farmers Weekly

Three PhD students have invented an edible bale wrap to reduce farm waste. The patent-pending BioNet biopolymer was developed specifically for farms to

www.fwi.co.uk

 

[icanshootwell]

I wonder what happened here :

Edible bale wrap developed to reduce livestock farm waste - Farmers Weekly

Three PhD students have invented an edible bale wrap to reduce farm waste. The patent-pending BioNet biopolymer was developed specifically for farms to

www.fwi.co.uk

So when the cattle have munched there way through the outer layer of plastic, the net can act as a kind of dental floss.

 

[penntor]

Mole Valley mag now comes with no wrapper at all.
Yes, I am concerned about the amount of single use plastic I produce, bale wrap and net etc. Small feed bags ( still have sheep nuts in 25kg bags) get snapped up by people for various uses, could probably sell them rather than give them away like I do now, so they are reused ( high up the waste hierarchy ).
I think single use plastics are, in reality, more of a problem on farms rather than a few animals farting methane.