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nelsone on October 16, 2008 - 3:51pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I guess I'm not in the same category with you farmers - I'm a gardener, and my mulch sheeting lasts a long, long time. The fabric type is permeable, so it doesn't hold moisture, but it's a lot easier to roll back up than film. Still, for my lil' half-acre, reuse isn't a problem for either type.

We're going to have more than enough oil to make mulch film and fabric for generations, especially when the car market crashes! Seriously, plastic is a minor player in our profligate petrorgy.

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mikeB on October 16, 2008 - 5:02pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

OK, I see your point. And actually, here at home I DO reuse my plastic. I'm cheap, and this is a smaller scale than the farm I work at, so I carefully fold up my sheets and stack them in the shed. They get thrown out only after they start deteriorating.

The stuff I refer to above is the filmy stuff that comes off the back of the tractor. It's impossible not to damage upon removal, and there's really no way to store it. I still cringe every time I go to the dump with it, though.

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sofistek on October 18, 2008 - 3:11am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

"We're going to have more than enough oil to make mulch film and fabric for generations"

Oh, that's OK, then. At least the next n generations will be fine.

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