This request and release is about plastic used to wrap hay or silage.
Response date
11 August 2020
Type
Departmental
This request and release is about plastic used to wrap hay or silage.
Response date
11 August 2020
Type
Departmental
Details of the request
1. How much plastic by weight is being used each year to wrap bales of hay or silage? If you don't have accurate numbers, what is your best estimate?
2. How much of that plastic is recycled via the Plasback product stewardship scheme? If you don't have accurate numbers, what is your best estimate?
3. If you don't have the information I have asked for above, why is that the case? Have you asked the producers of agricultural packaging for the data and have you asked Plasback for the data?
4.How do you propose to respond to the problem exposed in this story? https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/rafting-guides-one-nz-s-longest-rivers-pull-half-tonne-plastic-buller-gorge