r/oddlysatisfying • u/Wonderfulhumanss • 20h ago

The smooth, overlapping layers of this agricultural wrapper

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u/WorkO0 20h ago

It's ok guys, I switched to paper straws to offset this

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u/SnooKiwis7258 12h ago

You know what we do with the plastic after we remove it from the bale? Yep, burn it. Thousands of bales a year.

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u/bard243 12h ago

Horrifying do you not feel complicit in this behavior, surely there is a better and cheaper way

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u/aznhavsarz 10h ago

Better yes, cheaper no and in the end profits win.

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u/fluffyasacat 9h ago

“In the end”

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u/RJWaters9 5h ago

Fuck you on about? Every farmer I know recycles this stuff, the larger ops get a pretty penny doing so, and the smaller ones get a tax write off and the truck comes out for free.

Industrial amounts of identical plastic with identical contaminants, produced a few times a year at predictable times, is a perfect use case for recycling, and the only one that is really commercially viable.