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Can Agriculture Kick Its Plastic Addiction?

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Mitigation requires slashing production and consumption, he adds, and increasing recycling and reuse all along the supply chain. 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.