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25/05/2009
Sarah Falkingham investigates why increased UK veg production means that more and more fields are covered in plastic, which usually end up in landfill.
Sarah Falkingham investigates why increased UK veg production means that more fields become 'lakes of plastic'. She visits a grower in West Yorkshire with over 1,000 acres of carrots who uses plastic covering to produce a crop every week of the year. But with only a handful of cleaning and recycling sites in the UK, the plastic is dumped in landfill after a few months of use.
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