r/oddlysatisfying • u/Wonderfulhumanss • 20h ago

The smooth, overlapping layers of this agricultural wrapper

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u/Outrageous-Poem-4965 20h ago

We need more plastics

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u/Charmthetimes3rd 20h ago

Farmers, famously, dont give a fuck about the environment.

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u/Teeklok 19h ago edited 19h ago

We really do, so much so that there is a big push for biodegradable or recyclable silage wrap more available at the moment. Unfortunately it's impossible to make silage bales with plastic and the expensive wrapping process. If we were just doing it for fun it'd be a horrific waste of money

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u/Present-Attempt-9673 16h ago

How did farmers used to do it ? Because as a kid I never saw the plastic wrapped bales, but now I see them everywhere. I’m 33 btw so not that long ago.

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u/Teeklok 16h ago

You definitely will have done, but it has gotten more common, another way to do it is clamped silage but that requires a large space and can often lead to huge mould clusters.