The Agrecovery Foundation has issued its Annual Report for 2019-2020.
The 2019-2020 financial year was one of growth, consolidation and change.
Most notably was the disruption that the Covid-19 pandemic caused to our operations, recycling results and ways of working and travelling. Despite this, we have some exciting initiatives in the pipeline that will see our programme grow and expand. One, I am particularly excited about, is finding a sustainable and enduring system for recycling seed, feed and fertiliser bags and teat seal intra-mammary tubes. The government signalling of regulated product stewardship for agrichemicals and farm plastics will further grow our programme.
The key item to address is ensuring that there are sustainable end uses for all the plastic we aim to ...
Recycling Week is a good way of celebrating the achievements of our rural communities in working to support the principles and practices of a circular economy, resource efficiency and waste reduction. At Agrecovery, these principles are at the core of programmes delivered across the country every single day. Our rural communities have made a real and sustained effort to move away from the take-make-waste linear consumption to a circular restorative and regenerative economy. Despite the challenges faced this year with recycling being paused for almost two months, farmers have maintained their resolve to keep recycling and being good guardians of the land. The government has also stepped in to try and help this become the norm for all farmers and ...
Agrecovery’s new General Manager, Tony Wilson, wants all farm waste recycled, reused, or repurposed in his quest to build upon the legacy that his predecessor, Simon Andrew, left behind. “First and foremost, I want to follow the trajectory that the not-for-profit recycling scheme has already achieved,” he says, adding that he’s “not here to reinvent the wheel, but we will utilise our local and global networks to make our programme an even better one”. “I’m proud to be leading New Zealand’s peak rural recycling scheme for agrichemical containers and drums. As one of the rural sector’s first voluntary recycling initiatives, it will soon be one of the first regulated product stewardship schemes in the rural sector,” says Wilson. “I want ...
An innovative project to address the environmental issues caused by soft agricultural plastics, such as the bags used for fertiliser, seed, and feed, as well as netting, silage wrap and twine, seeks to find sustainable solutions for these plastics at the end of their useful life. The farm plastics we’re finding solutions for The scope of this project includes, but isn’t limited to, the following farm plastics: plastic sacks for packaging agricultural and horticultural commodities – including, fertiliser sacks, feed sacks and bulk tonne bags of woven polypropylene and/or polyethylene plastic wrapping materials for silage or hay – including baleage wrap, hay bale netting, baling twine and covers for silage pits How this is being done The project aims to ...
