Before food even gets to the grocer, tonnes of plastic have been used to produce it on the farm. Now, Victorian farmers have ...

A research team has discovered an exciting use for biochar — commonly a processed farm waste — that could dramatically lower the amount of microplastics from farms ending up in our oceans ...

For this study, the research team wanted to see if it could separate microplastics from farm soil. The results were extremely encouraging. Biochar removed a robust 92.6% of plastic particles from ...

He says anything that is a plastic-based product is in short supply ... Jones says the impact at the farm supply level is a residual effect of the pandemic last year. The long tail of COVID ...