Farm Plastic Recycling-Advice please

[LISA]

I have received a leaflet from the "Farm Plastic and Hazardous Waste Recycling Scheme" As I understand it you pay an annual membership and they collect your plastic for a fee, or you can take it free to your nearest collection depot.

Our main plastic would be silage wrap. On the face of it this looks good (£135 per year, far cheaper than a disposal cost by other recycle firms.)

Does anyone have any experience of using this scheme?

If not what do you do with your silage wrap and similar? Please do not say recycle into heat!!!

[marcus]

Hi,
The cheapest way to get rid of it is at your local refuse depot. I think down here it is about £140 a ton, it takes a lot of wrap to make a ton, as long as you are sensible and keep it dry.
I would advise contacting your local depot and checking on the price they charge.
What I do is role up the wrap as soon as I take it off the bale, tie it up, then put it in a dumpy bag in the dry. Then I wait until I have enough to warrent the journey to the tip/
Hope this helps.
regards,
Marcus.

[Broomcroft]

LIsa, We pay £150 a year and have to deliver it. There is no annual fee, just a charge for the amount you take.

Why have an annual fee? I wouldn't pay anything up front. Half the people I've heard of starting in recycling have closed down. Ours amounts to one load in a 10 tonne grain trailer, or to put it another way, the wrap off 650 round bales that had 8 layers.

[Mark Bowles]

I took about half a ton to my local waste merchant, scrapman. He charged £98 per ton plus vat and at that i thought i was being ripped off...maybe not. The important bit to me was that i walked away with proof that i had recycled it, this keeps my Single farm payment safe.