Ngai Tahu Farming has diverted 45 per cent of its farming operation’s waste from landfill to recycled products thanks to an innovative agricultural plastics recycling scheme. The iwi farming organisation has been targeting waste reduction as part of Te Runanga …
In July 2024 a government mandated recycling scheme will come into force covering all farm plastics. While the agricultural industry has taken some impressive steps over the past decade to recycle silage wrap, pit covers and agrichemical containers, this is …
In June nationwide crop-packaging distributor ProAg-Wearparts joined the Plasback on-farm plastics recycling scheme. By doing so, it becomes the third significant distributor of hay and silage nets, twines and wraps to join the Plasback scheme in 2022. ProAg-Wearparts development manager …
The two main farm plastic collection programmes in New Zealand’s primary sector – Agrecovery and Plasback – have agreed to work together to improve the services they provide farmers and growers. Agrecovery chief executive Tony Wilson and Plasback commercial manager …
Nation-wide farm plastics recycler Plasback is helping an Ashburton business solve a daunting problem – cleaning up a massive stockpile of waste plastic. Plasback is working with specialist company Southern Xpress to bale and remove about 1000 tonnes of silage …
Its commitment to sustainability and innovation has led New Zealand’s only manufacturer and distributor of silage wrap, Integrated Packaging, to join the Plasback agricultural plastics recycling scheme. Integrated Packaging general manager Mark Bunt says his company is the only local …
New Zealand agriculture’s effort to recycle its waste plastic is a good news story that should be more widely known. That effort is now at a crossroads, however. If the industry does not take the initiative to lift recycling to …
Ag plastic recycler Plasback has come a long way since it collected its first consignment of used silage wrap from South Canterbury farmers John and Noeline Peters in 2007. Since then it has picked up more than 20,000 tonnes of …
New Zealand’s on-farm plastics recycler, Plasback is looking to the future with it’s appointment of a new Commercial Manager, Neal Shaw. Neal will work with Plasback’s existing commercial manager, Chris Hartshorne, for a transition period of at least six months. …
Caption: John Tulloch (left) and Chris Hartshorne shake hands to mark Tulloch Farm Machines joining the Plasback scheme. Article written by Paul Titus, and printed in the Rural Contractor and Large Scale Farmer magazine. May 6th, 2021 New Zealand’s on-farm …
New Zealand’s nation-wide on farm recycling scheme, Plasback, has reached out to Wild Rivers Rafting with an offer to collect the waste plastic wrap it has picked up from the Buller River so that it can be recycled. A recent …
As part of a wider plan to reduce the amount of rubbish ending up in New Zealand’s landfills, the Government is to fund the upgrading of seven high-tech recycling plants from Northland to Canterbury announced Associate Minister for the Environment …
We have used Plasback for 7 years now and over that time their service has been great. It’s a great initiative to be able to send our bale/silage wrap back to be recycled into a useful product, especially with increased …
Bob Shaw, a local farmer from Wyndham, Southland, is starting to get very excited about the finished Tuffdeck product and can’t wait for his sheep to arrive in 2 weeks time. Here is what Bob had to say about the …
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