How to deal with farmers’ love of plasticSheeting, twine and packaging are beneficial, but not if used only oncePolytunnels divide opinion. For some, these long, plastic-sheeted structures that are used to grow crops blight the landscape. Others say they enable more produce to grow locally. Now, they are the focus of another debate: how to stop polluting agricultural plastic going to landfill or for incineration.The 12.5mn tonnes of plastic used in agriculture every year (from […]
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Adivalor and an intervention at the Economic and Social Council of the European Union of COPA COGECA (the European association of farmers and their cooperatives), Thierry Bailliet testified to his experience of farmer-recycler. Thanks to the APE-Adivalor collection channels, it recycles practically 100% of the plastics it uses. The CPA thanks him for this testimony which shows the effectiveness of recycling in agriculture. Thierry Bailliet49-year-old mixed crop-livestock […]
APE Europe and Polieco - the Italian consortium in charge of the management of used polyethylene products - signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the Polieco International Forum in Naples on Friday 8 October 2021. The Memorandum foresees an enhanced cooperation between the two organisations to ensure an integrated management of agricultural plastics in Italy. Polieco, as the legitimate representative of the Italian plastic industry, will join APE Europe, which will be responsible for its […]
The European Plasticulture Strategy, unanimously adopted by the members of APE Europe on 2 December 2020, and supported by COPA-COGECA, the European association of farmers and cooperatives, as well as by the plastics industry, has become the reference in our sector. It was printed at the end of June and distributed to almost 2,000 decision-makers in the plasticulture community or public authorities in Europe. It is still available on the APE Europe website or on […]
As part of its post-COVID recovery plan the European Union has created a new contribution for member states, based on the amount of packaging plastics not recycled, to encourage recycling. This contribution is payable by states and can be deferred as a tax, which shows how important it is that agricultural plastics are not considered as packaging. A plastic tax on agriculture would penalise agricultural production, even though members states have the option of not […]
In the frame of the revision of EU legislation on waste and recycling, APE Europe recall the specific situation of plastics with agronomic effect used in agriculture. Considering their role in agricultural production and the specific end-of-life management system they have, they should be considered as non-packaging products.Download
Intervention of Peka Pesonen, General Secretary of COPA-COGECA, the European farmers and cooperatives associations, during the General Assembly of the Circular Plastic Alliance.
EuCertPlast welcomes Petcore Europe, VinylPlus and APE Europe as Regular Members. Their membership marks an additional effort to ensure quality management systems in plastic recycling.“Collaboration is key in ensuring the revamping of the plastic waste management systems, and it is for that reason that we are glad to join a well-reputed certification scheme such as EuCertPlast”, said Christian Crépet, the Executive Director of Petcore Europe.“Trust in the quality of plastic recycling processes is a must […]
Christiane Lambert, president of the french farmer union, FNSEA, is the new president of COPA, the european farmer union federation in Brussels.In the 2020 edition of Plasticulture Magazine, Christiane Lambert support strongly our model of national collection schemes. (The circular economy is at rhe heart of agricultural activity” P65. Christiane said:” as a farmer, I can tell you than we are very happy to have recycling systems for used plastics…”).This support is be very important […]
