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Can Agriculture Kick Its Plastic Addiction?

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These synthetic polymer products have often been used to help boost yields up to 60 percent and make water and pesticide use more efficient. Rodale has even designed an add-on device for tractors, making the blueprint publicly available.) plastics policy. Depending on [those] factors,” she adds,” everything is scalable.”