A new service has begun to recover and recycle silage wrap on farms.
An estimated 4000 tonnes of plastic wrapping are used on New Zealand farms every year.
The Agrecovery Foundation already oversees a recycling programme for plastic chemical containers collected from farms and orchards.
Recovering of baleage wrap to date has been limited to small local schemes which ship the plastic to China for processing.
Bruce Emerson, of the 3R Group, which runs the Agrecovery programme says disposal of silage wrap is becoming a bigger issue as usage grows. It's generally burned or buried.
Farmers can join the silage wrap recovery programme by buying bags to store the used plastic wrap, which will then be collected. It will cost about $1 per wrap to use the scheme.
Mr Emerson says 3R is looking at new technology which would allow the wrap to be cleaned so it can be processed in New Zealand - rather than shipping it to China.
