Very interested podcast on the most pressing question: “Can the use of plastic products in agriculture be made sustainable?”, featuring Richard H. Thompson and Kristina Thygesen.
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Agricultural plastics and circularity of organic waste are emerging among the options available today for promoting efficient and reliable food production. However, it is urgent to determine how to deploy these strategies in a sustainable way while preventing pollution. Both benefits and problems concerning plastic in agriculture are highlighted in this podcast. Greenhouses, mulching films, protection nets, and so on : global agriculture produces 12 million tons of plastic waste every year, with a substantial fraction probably undergoing some form of mismanagement.