Contamination by plastics used in agriculture

Agricultural plastics, especially plastic films, are not easy to recycle because of high contamination levels (up to 40-50% by weight contamination by pesticides, fertilizers, soil and debris, moist vegetation, silage juice water, and UV stabilizers) and collection difficulties (Kasirajan and Ngouajio 2012). Therefore, they are often buried or abandoned in fields and watercourses (Vox et…

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    GRID-Arendal
  • Year:
    02/11/2021

Contamination by plastics used in agriculture

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