Can Agriculture Kick Its Plastic Addiction?
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 4, 2023
The Rodale Institute , a nonprofit research institution for organic farming, cites that every acre of land farmed with plastic mulch creates upwards of 120 pounds of waste that typically end up in landfill, or otherwise break down into the soil or nearby watersheds. As contamination rose, crop yields fell by 15 percent.
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