Recycling isn't the answer

https://www.letsrecycle.com/news/press-review-recycling-trashed-by-boris/

Have to agree with Boris on this one, you cannot recycle your way out of the plastics issue!

Ask any composter / food waste / ad plant... if the plastics weren't in the feedstock in the first place then there wouldn't be a plastics in compost/digestate issue.

PAS 100/110 products are going to become more prevailing with fert prices but you don't have to tell me why farmers are reluctant to use them at times (I'm in the game).

And don't get me started on the biodegradable plastics nonsense.
 

Bald Rick

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Just out of interest .......... and potentially VERY worrying but I see that Dutch researchers have now found micro plastics in the bloodstream of farm animals. It is assumed that they have got there via water ingestion.
Ergo, it is likely that micro plastics will also be in the blood of humans. However, far more likely is that it will be used as a stick to tell us to stop eating meat


(also in the Times but behind a pay wall)

and here we go:

 
Don't buy sh!t you don't need is the answer.
But the global economy would fall apart.
Noble but...
Food is the main offender and If you went shopping tonight if your local supermarket with the intention of only purchasing food that is not packaged with plastic.. you might not come out with that much in your trolley. And its not even a supermarket thing either, my local butchers uses polystyrene and plastic packaging like it's going out of fashion.
 

thesilentone

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Livestock Farmer
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Cumbria
The food industry would collapse without plastic, and we are all slaves to the supermarkets.

For years the Supermarkets have talked the talk, and done.....nowt !

We can of course manage, however the Supermarkets profits and turnover would plummet when we all find we buy way more than we need, which is what Tetra Pak allows.

A whole website of BS: https://www.tetrapak.com/en-gb/campaigns/go-nature-go-carton/our-journey

Microplastics are found everywhere now, however no one has had the bxxxs to say that they are doing harm.
 
Incinerate the lot and make electricity from it.

All packaging should be paper, starch or biological in nature. Conventional plastics just incinerate them.


Lots of Council people and Eco businesses make a lot of money out of not recycling. Shame really as what they are failing to do right is far worse than sticking it in a hole.

Far better burnt as you say.
 

serf

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Location
warwickshire
Incinerate the lot and make electricity from it.

All packaging should be paper, starch or biological in nature. Conventional plastics just incinerate them.
Exactly , green .... like feck .... after they trapsed around the country with it sorted it packed it and sent it to China to send it back here , sounds really green , history will look back on this green folly as the biggest con and waste of money ever!
 
The food industry would collapse without plastic, and we are all slaves to the supermarkets.

For years the Supermarkets have talked the talk, and done.....nowt !

We can of course manage, however the Supermarkets profits and turnover would plummet when we all find we buy way more than we need, which is what Tetra Pak allows.

A whole website of BS: https://www.tetrapak.com/en-gb/campaigns/go-nature-go-carton/our-journey

Microplastics are found everywhere now, however no one has had the bxxxs to say that they are doing harm.

The government could say to retailers that all products could be sold in a common shaped bottle that was black or whatever and save having a myriad of different bottle types that could thus be washed and recycled but no one will because big business would complain their unique packaging was lost.
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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