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I'm just curious what happens to the plastic once removed off bales is it used for other things ?

It's recycled.

Be nice to know. Never heard of any place out here that takes that or plastic from a pit.

It’s burnt with all of the other garbage on the farm like twine.

smoke and fumes from burning plastic are carcinogenic

There are recycle programs for it  
 
Edited by Goatmanatv, 2019-03-28 09:23:48

I know 0 farmers that recycle it!!!!!!! Burnt or taken to the dump.

Now you can say you know 1 that recycles it!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://cleanfarms.ca/programs/ag-film-twine-recycling-mb/collection-sites/

Glad someone does. It makes a mess in the yard and terrible to clean up. I use it a bit but try not to. Definitely not a fan.

Thanks for that! I was wondering what to do with it.  
Just took my first load.  
https://cleanfarms.ca/

Can’t find a location in their website. Where did you take it?

Yes, and it smells like burning garbage. It is toxic for people, farm & wild animals alike, and certainly not great when it heads your way and makes me concerned for our animals that have no choice but to breathe it in. They can't move away from it.  
 
I know that most farmers burn twine that is on their weed/straw bales. I know of none who take it off first. That is too much extra work. That twine is plastic, no longer jute as in the old days. I also have wondered what the residual chemicals (in or on the weeds/straw) turn into when burned...that can't be good for health either. Some farmers don't care nor give it a second thought...but just make sure the smoke is headed away from their place. We have lost birds when this smoke has moved into our space. I worry about my family too...but we have no recourse. To talk to those farmers would be fruitless.  
 
I have also seen sheets of plastic (long grain bags) left in fields...saw some just last week, actually, and it has been there for a couple years already.  
 
It is good to hear that there are actually places to take this waste. Hopefully more are responsible, make the effort to take it in, and spread the word. Thank you for posting about that recycling program.

Tell your little kids it's a field of marshmallows. ..lol

I don't know what farmers you've been watching, but it's imperative to recover as much poly twine from round bales as possible. You do NOT want that crap to lay in the straw and end up snarled around the beaters of the manure spreader when the time comes to clean the runs. Takes forever to cut loose!

I wonder if all the people blaming the farmers for twine and plastic. Are the same ones who bag up their garbage and garden waste is plastic bags? Who purchase items that have a ton of packaging that is toxic? Who throw there plastic drinks and other items out of the car window?  
 
All of these other things are worse.  
 
And farmers don't like twine in their field as the poster said.

Even if "residual" chemicals were sprayed on the cereal crop before it was harvested and baled, the break down from the environment(microbial degradation and UV rays) would have made it non existent after several weeks. Fear mongering and bad mouthing farmers isn't productive.

Medora disposal site.