Rural waste-disposal solution

Feed bags now recyclable

Fiber Fresh Feeds has taken a further step towards becoming 100% clean and green by becoming the first stock feed company able to recycle its bags using the Agrecovery Wrap recycling program.

The company became a brand owner of the Agrecovery Wrap recycling program in January and is encouraging their customers to use the program to dispose of their empty feed bags.

Fiber Fresh Feeds’ Managing Director, Michael Bell, says, “The Agrecovery Wrap recycling program provides our customers with a convenient and efficient waste-disposal solution, which also helps protect our environment. The only thing unnatural about our products is the packaging and we are very pleased that it can now be so easily recycled.”

Customers can recycle their empty Fiber Fresh bags by purchasing a small or large Agrecovery Wrap recycling bag from their rural retailer, or by using their existing Agrecovery Silage Wrap recycling bags.

The bags are made from a virgin plastic laminate and, for convenience, Agrecovery has agreed that both farm silage wrap and Fiber Fresh bags can be collected together. All a customer needs to do when a Fiber Fresh bag is empty is shake all the loose feed material from the bag, roll it up and stuff it into the Agrecovery bag. When the Agrecovery bag is full, customers can book its collection. After booking, small bags are directed to a nearby collection site while all large bags are collected on farm at no extra cost.

Michael Bell says, “Fiber Fresh is very committed to sustainable production and is very pleased that Agrecovery has enabled us to provide our customers with a very simple way to minimise the environmental impact of our packaging.”

Agrecovery was established in 2005 to address persistent on-farm waste issues. The organisation now provides New Zealand farmers and growers with nationwide agrichemical container, silage wrap and crop protection net recycling as well as a program for the collection of unwanted chemicals.

www.agrecovery.co.nz