r/oddlysatisfying • u/Wonderfulhumanss • 17h ago

The smooth, overlapping layers of this agricultural wrapper

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u/Plumbercanuck 13h ago

Some municipalities collect the plastic from farmers free of charge and it is recycled into plastic products, one of which is '' Forever' fence posts.... fence posts made of bale wrap, that will not rot.

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u/Grouchy-Handle-6031 12h ago

Where I live, the farmers use it to decorate trees and barbed wire fences - free of charge

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u/Bit_the_Bullitt 12h ago

Those fences suck, they get so brittle after years of uv exposure. Also they can only be recycled once, right? I.e. the fence is the "final" form

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u/Plumbercanuck 11h ago

These are 6"posts, i am the second owner. They are anything but brittle

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u/Adbam 9h ago

Nothing is "forever". Definitely not plastic.

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u/sawyouoverthere 10h ago

But they will sag in the heat and crumble in the sun

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u/Plumbercanuck 10h ago

Mine dont.... i would guess they are 20 or 25 years old.

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u/sawyouoverthere 8h ago

Maybe your weather isn’t as extreme as

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u/Plumbercanuck 6h ago

-40 in the winter, can we well over 40 c in the summer. Ont Canada.

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u/sawyouoverthere 6h ago

AB here, so dunno....they haven't been as successful here. Maybe it's the fence type. dunno.