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How immense is farming’s problem with plastic?

Sustainable Food Trust

For starters, there is a basic lack of waste facilities across the UK that deal with farm plastics and costs can be significant for some farmers, but the bigger problem lies in the fact that there is little ‘closed-loop’ recyclability in the way these plastics are manufactured. With around 216,000 farms in the UK and 17.2

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