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Bruce from Can. · Mar 30, 2016

About once a month I make the six mile trip to the municipal garbage transfer site to dump off bale wrap. There is no charge to dump plastic wrap, as long as it is clean, meaning free of mud/manure . The township gets a few $$$ for it from some recycling company that makes plastic lumber etc. Any one else do this? I am glad it is free for me to dump this, I wouldn want to burn it.

RayP(MI) · Mar 30, 2016

That looks like a good idea to me. See a lot of bale wrap litter around farms around here.

centash · Mar 30, 2016

I collected a winter,s worth of wrap, cleaned up, brought to the recycling Centre and was told they just bury it!Sure wish the recycling company was as responsible as is yours. Ben

ajl · Mar 30, 2016

One of the differences is that Bruce hails from Canuckistan. There are subsidies for everything up here including recycling. Nothing happens here without subsidies. It used to be that oil paid for stuff like this but now debt does.

centash · Mar 30, 2016

I am from the same province as Bruce. It seems his municipality is a bit more forward thinking than ours is.

MKinON · Mar 30, 2016

I see a lot of nylon twine laying around too.

Spook · Mar 30, 2016

A lot of folks in the US want to go back to the 90's. - 1890's........😀

Tech 7 · Mar 30, 2016

I have an arrangement with a neighbour who is on a route for a private contractor that picks up bale wrap and similar plastics. I like the idea of recycling it as it is not the cleanest stuff to burn and costs a lot of bag tags to get it hauled away from the roadside.
As far as being subsidized for 'everything" we could argue that for some time and get no where. I never thought I would need a government approved card in my wallet so I could plant corn.

rusty6 · Mar 30, 2016

(quoted from post at 10:11:35 03/30/16) One of the differences is that Bruce hails from Canuckistan. There are subsidies for everything up here including recycling. Nothing happens here without subsidies. It used to be that oil paid for stuff like this but now debt does.

Every time we buy a filter, a container of oil, tires, batteries, etc., they all have an environmental tax added to the cost that we pay. So maybe not all that subsidized.
I don't know about plastic bale wrap but maybe it is the same with an environmental charge. It needs some sort of recycling for sure rather than going up in smoke.

oldtanker · Mar 30, 2016

Here a lot of guys burn it. It's illegal but it very expensive to get rid of for the guys feeding a couple of thousand of bales a year.

Rick

Adirondack case guy · Mar 30, 2016

Here in upstate NY there are lots of lakes and lots of boats. The bigger marinas offer a plastic wrap system to seal up boats for winter storage. Boats are much bigger than round bales. Back 7 years ago, I looked into a baler to handle the plastic wrap and we discussed the whole concept, but back then there were no incentives to set up a recycling center to handle this waste and as you said, the wrap from bales must be clean, (no problem with boat wrap), but that is a real problem when bales end up in a mud hole every spring, unless they are stored on concrete pads. I thought it was a viable business, but my then boss wasn't willing to take the risk.
Loren

Bob NY · Mar 31, 2016

Madison County (west of here) has a program to recycle farm plastic. It hasn't spread to the neighboring counties yet.

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