Clark County UW-Extension and Revolution Plastics Providing Ag Plastic Recycling Dumpsters to Clark County Farmers, Part 1
Monday, June 26th, 2017 -- 11:25 AM
-The Clark County UW-Extension Office and Revolution Plastics are excited to bring an ag plastics recycling event to Clark County.Revolution Plastics will be distributing dumpsters in Clark County on Tuesday, July 18th for on-farm agricultural plastics recycling. I spoke with Clark County’s CNRED Agent Melissa Kono, who was instrumental in bringing this to the county, and she explained the program in more detail.
"UW-Extension is partnering with Revolution Plastics to provide dumpsters to farmers for use in agricultural plastics recycling. The event is on July 18th. And at the event, farmers can pick up a dumpster, at no cost, and then the company, Revolution Plastics, provides pick up on about a four to six week collection cycle. And so, it is free for the dumpster and the collection service is free. And we're just trying to provide a service so that farmers can recycle their agricultural plastics, which, traditionally, have been really hard to recycle because agricultural plastic tends to be light weight, low density plastic. So, it's not like a pop bottle or milk carton that's easier to recycle, harder plastic. And it tends to be dirty and processors typically don't like that type of plastic when they're processing it for reuse."
Coming up on Tuesday, we’ll hear more about the program.
Feel free to contact us with questions and/or comments.