What can your Agri business do to reduce plastic waste?
The Knowledge Transfer NetworkTuesday, 17 March 2020 from 08:00to 11:15 (GMT)Peterborough, United KingdomThe speakers will focus on the agriculture sector, highlighting the environmental effects and discussing solutions to reduce single use plastics, for example, silage wrap, silage sheets, bale net,…
UK Govt introduces new £200/tonne packaging plastics tax from April 2022 (11th March 2020)
Chancellor Rishi Sunak used today’s (11 March) Budget to announce that the tax on plastic packaging containing less than 30% recycled content will come into force in April 2022, and will be set at £200 a tonne.In the first Budget…
Spain advances in the management of agricultural plastic waste with the creation of MAPLA
Versión en español MAPLA is born, the new Association of producers of plastics for agriculture that will organize a national system of management of agricultural plastic waste to boost its recyclingMadrid/Paris 2020, February 10thThe new association MAPLA (Environment Agriculture and…
Report of the congress of CIDAPA from November 2019 to May 6-8, 2020
Following the recent political events in Chile, CIDAPA announces that it must postpone to 6-8 May 2020 the congress which was scheduled for 13-16 November 2019.More information on congresocidapa.com
letsrecycle.com reports news of launch of APE UK Farm Plastics Collection Scheme (25th October 2019)
APE UK plastic farm collection scheme raise interest, as in this article of Let’s recycle: https://www.letsrecycle.com/news/latest-news/farm-films-scheme-agreed-amid-capacity-concerns/