Can Agriculture Kick Its Plastic Addiction?
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 4, 2023
In China, where farms use enough plastic film to cover the surface area of Idaho every year, the difficulty of end-of-season removal led growers, at one point, to plow the plastic directly into the field. The widespread practice, which took place through the late aughts, “had a deleterious effect on soil quality,” says Richard H.
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