Why plastics used on farms is worth talking about
Posted by:
Fiona Tovey, Project Manager Plastics & Sustainability Team, Posted on:
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Categories:
agriculture, Regulated industry, Waste
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Since Blue Planet II there has been increasing awareness of the amount of plastic we use and it littering our land, rivers and seas but I doubt many people have thought about the plastics that are used on farms being illegally exported to countries all over the world! I certainly hadn’t until I joined the Environment Agency’s (EA) newly established Plastics and Sustainability team in 2018 inspiring positive behaviour change within the agricultural sector.