
Plasticulture
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- Types of plastics used
- Applications
- Greenhouses and walk-in tunnel covers
- Small tunnel covers
- Plastic mulch
- Origins and development around the world
- Large-scale usage in southern Spain
- Environmental aspects
- Recycling
- Legislation on plastic use in agriculture
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Plasticulture is the practice of using plastic materials in agricultural applications. The plastic materials themselves are often and broadly referred to as "ag plastics". Plasticulture ag plastics include soil fumigation film, irrigation drip tape/tubing, plastic plant packaging cord, nursery pots and bales, but the term is most often used to describe all kinds of plastic plant/soil coverings. Such coverings range from plastic mulch film, row coverings, high and low tunnels (polytunnels), to plastic greenhouses.