WRAP Articles
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Plastic Disease: You Need To Remove Net Wrap From Hay Bales
Why Do Farmers Use Net Wrap? Ever wonder how hay is Stored in Cattle Fields? Farmers use Net Wrap, which is often made out of plastic or twine. Plastic Net wrap and twine are used to hold Hay Bales together until it is time to feed cattle. It is a quick and convenient way to gather, load, and unload Hay Bales. In fact, when stored and applied properly, Net Wrap can maintain most of ...
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How Square Bales Differ From Round Bales?
Cross Wrap has over 27 years of experience in providing square bale wrapping solutions for the Waste-to-Energy sector. The company´s CrossWrap -method for square bale wrapping has gained a position as the industry standard among the vast majority of WtE -professionals, and business sector leaders. This blog will dive deep into the square bale wrapping method and clarify its benefits and how ...
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Home Composting Diversion: Household Level Analysis
The goals of the present study were to (i) verify Parfitt’s (2005) household-level models of home composting diversion, (ii) provide additional insight into how those diversion factors were derived, (iii) extend the modelling approach to consider garden waste in residual and garden waste collections, and (iv) track the performance of compost bins supplied by WRAP (Waste & Resources Action ...
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Maxilator: Hay Handling Equipment for American Farmers
Maxilator Equipment offers products and solutions for the American farmer. Every working industry looks for more efficient and innovative ways to improve their production. The farming industry is no exception. Farmers want to save time and money, especially on fuel and labor. Who is Maxilator? Handling hay bales requires hard work! A task that is time-consuming and backbreaking work. ...
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HINGED JOINT FIELD FENCE HEAVILY GALVANISED
Hinge joint field fence has four wrap knots or joints formed with two vertical stay wires wrap together that give under pressure, then spring back into shape. This hinged knot provides a continuing protection, maximum strength and flexibility of the entire fence fabrics. Hinge joint fence is popularly use in farms, pastures of USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia as field fencing materials. Hinge ...
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Demonstration Trials of the Utilisation of Composted Materials in the Maintenance of Sports and Amenity Turfgrass - ORG0027 final report
WRAP (The Waste and Resources Action Programme) was established in 2000 with the primary aim of creating stable and efficient markets for recycled materials and products. Within WRAP’s Organics Programme, the overall aim is to increase the manufacture and purchase of quality compost through capital funding, marketing, training, quality assurance as well as research and development. It has been ...
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The Sleever: additional flexibility with the Flex-Cassette
Paper packaging has a sustainable image, the reason why more and more consumers choose to buy products packed in paper. Consumers also like to see fresh produce like vegetables and fruits sustainably packed. Online attention extensively focused on plastic-wrapped cucumbers as the general public assessed this as an unnecessary waste of plastic. True, paper is a sustainable packaging material; ...
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With the Go!SCAN 3D you can get a 3D model… in less time than it takes a rooster to crow!
Companies who are looking for improvements and evolution of their product may have to reach out to external expertise. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to ship products, no matter how small they are. Creaform solutions help to overcome these obstacles … in less time than it takes a rooster to crow! Challenge: Complicated logistics for shipping your products Exceldor is a renowned ...
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Gore-Tex, House Wrap and Stomates
Want to develop an appreciation for Gore-Tex? All you need is five minutes in a rubber raincoat. But how do you know whether the North Face knock-off you've just purchased in China for a ridiculously low price is Gore-Tex or rubber? If you're a Decagon researcher, you dash back to your hotel room and clamp a porometer onto the fabric. Decagon's porometer was designed to measure stomatal ...
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Garden Binding Wire
Binding ties with iron wire as core wire, wrapped with natural paper or plastic covering, used for garden and agriculture tying, exported for Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Serbia and other countries. Plastic Binding Ties Binding tie wire with pvc covering Size: 2.6mm X 0.45mm iron wire inside Color: Dark green Wire Length and packing: 12cm X 1000 pcs/bundle 15cm X 1000 pcs/bundle 20cm X 1000 ...
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Berry Gardens - Case Study
‘This project… has given us new insights into the amount and causes of food waste at harvest. As a result, we plan to do further investigations while tracking food waste with our growers at more points across the season.’ Read this case study from a joint delivered by Berry Gardens, their strawberry growers and WRAP to gather new data on farm food waste and upskill the Berry ...
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The Production of Valentine's Day Fashion Flower Box
1. Repair the required flowers. Here is the red rose (for example, red dragonfly). Use a spiral method to make a round bouquet. The size can be controlled as needed. 2. Start cutting the flower box wrapping paper. Cut the first one out of the right size. Fold left and right and tilt up, placing the bouquet to the left. 3. The second one cuts the appropriate size in the same way. Fold right ...
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Research into increasing the use of recycled materials in the production of growing media - appendices - Star Plants, Barnham, climbing plants
Untitled Document This report deals with trials on twelve climbing plant subjects at Star Plants, Barnham, West Sussex between weeks 19 and 42 during 2003. They were part of WRAP project STA0013 which investigated the use of recycled materials in growing media. The trials compared the performance of formulations based on 40% by volume green compost diluted with either ...
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STA0013: Research into increasing the use of recycled materials in the production of growing media
Untitled Document This report records a trial on four pot bedding plant subjects at Golden Acres Nursery carried out in spring 2003. The nursery is based on the south coast in Dorset and specialises in the production of shrubs, bedding plants, hanging baskets and planted containers. This trial was part of WRAP project STA0013 which investigated the use of recycled materials ...
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Growing Media compost - fact sheet 9 - use of composted material in growing media for professional growers
Untitled Document Composted material boosts sustainable growing media Composted material can be a major cost-effective component of growing media being not only a sustainable, well-structured substrate but also a source of nutrients and buffering capacity. What is composted material? In the United Kingdom, composted material is made by composting ...
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RECYCLED COMPOST KEEPS THE GOING GOOD AT NEWBURY
Untitled Document Newbury Racecourse in Berkshire is one of the UK’s most prestigious sporting venues offering exciting racing on the flat and over jumps. This year it is celebrating its centenary and with the use of compost the racecourse is greener than ever. With around 30 race days every year busy staff face an ongoing battle to maintain the course and ...
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COMPOST HELPS TO CREATE SUSTAINABLE TOPSOIL ON BROWNFIELD SITE
Untitled Document When confronted with the vast expanse of concrete building bases and the shale tip of the long-abandoned coal mine at Tilmanstone in East Kent, Tom La Dell Landscape Architects realised that the topsoil needed for the regeneration of the site had to be created on site. Compost was the only practical and sustainable source of organic matter to mix with the ...
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Is Topsoil costing you the Earth?
BROWNFIELD REGENERATION remains key to the government’s plan for creating sustainable communities. However, crucial to brownfield regeneration is the issue of restoring the land to a high quality as quickly and cost effectively as possible. There is also the matter of ensuring that the regeneration process and resutting development is sustainable, given the increasing concern over global warming. ...
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Good Practice Guide - Managing Garden Waste at Civic Amenity Sites
Untitled Document This good practice guide is about collecting and handling garden waste at Civic Amenity sites (CA sites). It is intended for recycling officers and others within local authorities who have responsibilities for managing and developing the segregation and handling of recyclables through CA sites. The guide will also be of use to organisations contracted to ...
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The state of composting and biological waste treatment in the UK
In 2005/06 3.4 million tonnes of source segregated waste was composted, an increase of 28% on the previous year. 85% was municipal waste, with just over half of this collected at civic amenity sites Less than one per cent of municipal waste was kitchen waste collected at the kerbside 65% of waste composted was composted at dedicated composting / biological treatment sites, with 10% on farm ...
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