Recycling Agricultural Waste Plastic

A cost-effective solution to the plastic recycling directive

A simple concept which makes light work of waste agri-plastic: compact the waste at source with a mobile baler to produce mill-size bales which are cost-effective to handle and readily accepted by recyclers. The cost of disposal by this method is dramatically lower than most other schemes.

Typically a farm of 200 beef cattle and 300 sheep will pay approximately £1,000 per year to dispose of its waste plastic. With our scheme, ten farms buying one waste baler between them could halve that plastic recycling cost, including the once-only purchase of a baler.

The Agri-mac V250 (pictured) produces 150 - 425kg bales and is ideal for baling waste agri-plastic.

When a suitable quantity of baled plastic has accumulated, for a nominal fee we can arrange for its collection and onward delivery to a waste recycler. Agritel is a registered broker and carrier of controlled waste under the Control of Pollution (Amendment) Act 1989, and can supply the necessary paperwork to ensure compliance with the waste recycling directive. Click here to view certificate.

We take all types of agri-plastic, including silage wrap, feed bags, fertiliser bags, chemical containers (rinsed and dried), twine and netwrap. For maximum cost-effectiveness, plastic should be sorted and each type baled separately.

The scheme is perfectly suited to agricultural contractors seeking to extend their range of services, to groups of farmers who wish to share the cost of waste disposal, or to individuals who prefer to purchase a baler outright. And, in response to demand, we are about to launch a new day-hire rental service.

Talk to us today about:

• Purchase or lease of our tranportable waste plastic recycling balers
• Advice and collection arrangements for recycling plastics
• Options for waste plastic management on the farm

Call John Morgan or John Duffus on 01691 671496.

Full technical details are available at our Waste Balers page.

For case-studies and examples of our agri-plastic recycling scheme in action, click the following links*:

• Baling machine completes jigsaw in countrywide recycling operation (132KB)
• Helping hand on recycling (127KB)
• Agritel customer sets standard by providing recycling solution to chemical container disposal (81KB)
• Baling waste chemical containers (104KB)
• Firm reaps the benefit (101KB)
• Waste baling process gets thumbs up from Reading University agricultural centre (122KB)
• Results of CEDAR trial (335KB)
• Less is more: Agritel's solution for farm waste plastic disposal (89KB)

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