Waste
Rubbish as a resource
Plastic waste from farms isn’t just rubbish, it’s a resource. As a product stewardship scheme, Agrecovery doesn’t just collect your plastic farm waste, it cares about the products that plastic is turned into.
Episode 20 – Treating rubbish as a resource
Waste takes many different forms onfarm and there’s some great initiatives out there with an aim to give these resources another life - sometimes even back on the same farm!
In this episode, we hear from three experts who discuss the exciting ways we can begin to utilise onfarm waste as a resource.
Waste not, want not
From the wine to the waste industry. WM New Zealand Managing Director Evan Maehl has gone from producing the wine to collecting the empty bottle from the kerbside, and he couldn’t be happier. He explains why waste is sexy, and why we should all care about it.
Farmers’ green tinge growing
Farmers are on a green binge, recycling more waste and unwanted product through the Agrecovery scheme than ever.
Now the Government and agri manufacturers are working on a plan to make industry “hitchhikers” pay their way. Words Tim Fulton.