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[donald]

Hi All

 

Have been doing the recycling green and we can put cardboard in with the organic waste in our area.

 

But when I have seen the chips of this waiting to be spread on the fields in Herts there are lots of plastic and polystyrene (obviously not everyone removes the masking tape etc).

 

I was having a discussion with some friends and all this recycling that we are encouraged to do but is it really a good thing?

 

Questions are:

 

Will we run into problems in the future when someone decides that the recycled material shouldnt have been used and put over our food crops, it doesnt appear to be organinc waste only? Are we an unsuspecting public?

 

Do the powers to be rigorously test this for dioxins etc? There seems to be a lot of plastic etc in amongst it all.

 

Some of our local farmers have realised there is big money in recycling and are using Diversification? as the thing to go for but it seems more like industrialisation hiding behind a farm smokescreen!

 

Anyone out there that knows about this more than myself, I have seen plastic bags in ploughed fields. Environmental lot seem pretty rubbish themselves.

 

Help any ideas Donald

[Old Speckled Hen]

Bits of plastic in our fields is one thing but take a look at this article

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1053015/Uncovering-great-recycling-lie-trail-leads-India.html

It's the Daily Mail usual sensationalist view but it does indicate the problem of shipping UK recycling waste to poison the poor kids paid a pittance to sort it.

Less packaging would be a start,perhaps supermarkets should make us all pick our own produce where possible (and not pre-package) and ban plastic bags.