There can also be concerns about transporting contaminants such as pathogens with that debris. Agri-Plas, an agricultural plastics recycler in Brooks, Ore., handles most kinds of plastics, from bale wrapping and fertilizer bags to hard plastics and drip tape. Enormous piles of sorted plastics stand at the Agri-Plas facility, located in the midst of Willamette Valley farm country: colorful cubes of twine, clusters of black drip tape and seed trays, white mounds of plastic wrap and bags, and, in a special area, blue and white pesticide buckets that have been triple rinsed before collection.
В качестве примера Ниппер указывает на возможность для некоторых сельхозпроизводителей использовать мульчирующую плёнку два сезона подряд, сменяя лишь выращиваемые с её применением сельскохозяйственные культуры.