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Agricultural plastic waste

The most common current disposal practices for non-recyclable agricultural plastics waste are burying in the soil (mulching films), burning, or disposing of it in open fields or landfills [13]. All of these practices have serious negative consequences for the environment, and for the health of farmers and consumers, and impact on the quality and market value of agricultural produce. [Pg.39]

A novel non-petroleum based biodegradable plastic produced from sugar based agricultural raw materials as sweet sorghum, sugarcane and molasses, having potential properties comparable with conventional or synthetic plastics, is under development and could lower the contribution of plastic wastes to municipal landfills at about 20% of the total waste by volume and 10% by weight and can achieve a satisfactory for the environmental imperative. [Pg.56]

With the advent of modern fertilizers, seaweed fell out of use because of the ease of application of formulated pesticides and because the contamination of seaweed washed up on beaches with plastic waste (fishing lines and ropes, bottles, etc.). With the onset of green agriculture and the increasing demand for organically farmed produce, seaweed use as a fertilizer has come back into fashion. [Pg.548]

The amount of plastic waste generated is still considerably less than that of plastics produced in numerous applications (building, furniture, appliances) plastics meet longterm requirements before their disposal and therefore do not yet occur in the waste stream in big quantities. The majority of plastic wastes are found in municipal solid waste (MSW), as well as in waste streams arising in distribution, agriculture, construction and demolition, furniture and household ware, automotive, electronic and electrical, or medical applications. For a number of years the APME has ordered studies to be made that compile inventories of on the one hand production figures, on the other waste arising, by resin, country, and application and activity. [Pg.35]

D. P. Serrano, J. Aguado, J. M. Escola, E. Garagorri, J. M. Rodriguez, L. Morselli, G. Palazzi, and R. Orsi, Feedstock recycling of agriculture plastic film wastes by catalytic cracking, Appl. Catal. B Env., 49, 257 (2004). [Pg.109]

Plastic wastes may be the remains of production or post-consumer wastes, the latter being classified as municipal, packaging, agricultural, automotive and electrical. Packaging wastes are the major category [33, 52-54]. These are mainly thermoplastics such as polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene and polyvinyl chloride [28, 33, 55-56]. [Pg.617]

Special collection systems are generally provided for large-scale or commercial postconsumer applications such as for agricultural films, chemical containers, automotive parts, carpets, and polystyrene foam packaging. Since most of the plastic is collected as multimaterial or in commingled forms, the collected plastic waste has to be sorted, separated, and cleaned, and most of this is done at material recovery facilities (MRFs). [Pg.369]

Over 16 million tons of post-user plastics waste is produced in Western Europe every year and more than half is produced by households (Table 4.1). Although many items of packaging are re-used at least once (notably carrier bags and bottles), this does little to reduce the burden on the municipal waste collection systems. The source of packaging waste is not always clear in published statistics. Stretch-wrap film used for packaging hay is not classified as agricultural waste nor does it appear as industrial waste but it is a severe pollution problem for the farmer and a visual blight in the countryside. [Pg.69]

In spite of many different applications of polymers in all fields of our life only 0.6 % of the whole waste amount are falling to plastics. All over, in Western Europe in 1993 2.8 billion refuse of all type was proved (household, agricultural waste, industrial waste, electrical/electronical scrap, building refuse etc.). From this amount the plastics waste is only 16.2 million t. In the waste stream the largest fraction is the household plastics waste, like shown in table 3 ... [Pg.453]


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