Doesn't sound good

[ILovebaling]

There is/was a contractor round here who built lagoons for taking in waste and mixing to create fertilizer. I don't know the full details, just hearing things off farmers and in the local paper etc. But they were taking in literally anything and banging it in the lagoons, paint, paint thinner and worse I'd expect - any crap basically. Then selling it out as fertilizer. Local village protests about it in the paper because of the smell, leaking into the water courses. I seem to remember 1 point was they claimed it went on x amount per acre but the sums never made any sense as the figures of units/acres was always way out.

 

[Exfarmer]

I was offered a lagoon and as much water as I could take with the added bonus of urea in the mix, all to come from local airports. The Urea is spread on the runway to stop icing in the winter. A bit of research suggested there would be quite a bit of parrafin in the mix too so I turned it down.
However some of the soils round here have quite a high parrafin content as it was used for fly control in carrots before insecticides.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Was,t there a landfill site near the coast, the sea had eroded the coast away and was exposing the waste that was dumped many years before. Can,t remember what program it was on but some one would. The council responsible for this wants there ass kicking and the back hander,s paid back so the mistake can be rectified.

I think I heard about it on radio 4, somewhere in the Thames Estuary

 

[Ffermer Bach]

I've always said that landfill was the most logical and best disposal method for waste, because one day plastic will be so valuable they'll be digging it up and recycling it. As long as the sites are well prepared and managed, then the harm to the environment is minimal, and all the resources are still there for use another day.

I remember visiting a coal tip site in South Wales, where they were digging up the waste, putting it through a screener, then reburying the waste and selling the coal. I think if I remember they were exposing the top soil that was covered with waste and putting that on top when they finished.

 

[cubby]

Indeed does not sound good. What are the environment agency trading standard Nfu doing about this or is it another case of big f@@ks small !

 

[cubby]

Second farm treated as a ‘dumping ground' for waste products

A second dairy farmer has spoken out about the devastating impact a product sold as liquid fertiliser – but found to be contaminated with human…

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