Cultivating Plastic Part 4: Caution with regards to the adoption of potential agriplastic alternatives
As awareness of the issues brought about by agriplastic use are growing, so too is the search for alternative products or methods.
Tag: agriplastics
UK farmers continue to burn toxic plastics on agricultural land despite it being illegal
Mismanagement of agriplastic waste occurs throughout the UK food supply chain – including UK farmers who continue to burn or bury plastics used in food production on their land despite the practices being banned.
Cultivating Plastic Part 3: Agriplastic waste mismanagement and criminality
British farms produce 135,500 tonnes of soil-contaminated agricultural plastic waste each year – roughly equivalent in weight to 900 adult blue whales.
The grim price paid for our plastics addiction by seasonal farmworkers and their children in Türkiye
In recent years, the recycling industry has flourished in the Çukuroava region as a result of the overall multiplication of waste and plastification in our global economy, particularly in the Global North
Cultivating Plastic Part 2: Environmental and human health harm caused by agriplastics
Agriplastics are used widely in agriculture to grow and store produce, but are also responsible for widespread pollution, from their manufacture and use to mismanagement at the end of their useful life.
EIA podcast – how the use of agriplastics sows the seeds of pollution in farming
The plastics used in agricultural production – commonly called agriplastics – account for only 3.5 per cent of the plastic used around the world each year, but they directly pollute the human food chain and harm the wider environment.