What do you do with your used plastic

摘要

"I'm afraid it doesn't look all thatrosey," said Duncan Cross over the telephone in late August. Cross is the Atlantic Director of theCanadian Plastic Industry Association(CPIA), and the topic of conversation wasagricultural plastic. Agricultural plastics have become invaluable around the farm. They are usedto store and protect forage resources,provide coverings for silage and alsoserve as containers for products like fertilizer, herbicides, and other chemicals.Unfortunately, once the plastics have beenused, they end up soiled and dirty, and inAtlantic Canada there is little farmers cando with them.