Recycling Dairy and Farm Plastics

Best management practices

The most important thing is to remove non-plastic debris from the waste. Buckets and barrels should be rinsed clean. For general information on "Best Management Practices" for recycling dairy and farm plastics, see the study done in collaboration with Cornell University (click here for PDF document).

Reclaim Northwest, LLC. accepts: drip tape, ag bags, supersacks, twine, calf hutches, plastic barrels, buckets, berry flats, shrink wrap, etc. We are located at 199 H Street Road, just west of the Guide.

Why Recycle ?

What’s the matter with a bonfire fueled by plastic wastes, or with plowing old mulch or dairy film into a field or piling it out-of-the-way? The primary problems are that open burning adds pollutants to the air that pose risks to human health, and dumping can compromise water quality and future farm operations, not to mention that random piles of used, partly-degraded plastics are unsightly. Recycling improves environment quality.