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Used fertilizer bags

  • 09-04-2011 1:24pm
    #1
    WexTK
    Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭


    Hi all,

    first time poster so please excuse my ignorance :rolleyes:
    Have returned to family farm recently and not too sure what is
    the "official line" on disposal of used big fertilizer bags of the 400-500kg range.
    In my fathers time he would burn them but just wondering what the correct procedure these days would be as I now have a large number stockpiled and horded?

    Thanks in advance.


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  • #2
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    whereas before your father would have burned them whenever it suited him now under the offical regulations you have to burn them late at night or during the weekend. long weekends are especially good for burning!!! On saying that I take mine to the local council rubbish dump but usually buy in bulk to avoid this problem


  • #3
    ihatetractors
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭ihatetractors


    Farm plastics.ie, bulk load of spray cans, fert/seed 500kg bags and silage cover once a year in spring. Stock pile until then


  • #4
    dar31
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,704 ✭✭✭dar31


    ihatetractors wrote: »
    Farm plastics.ie, bulk load of spray cans, fert/seed 500kg bags and silage cover once a year in spring. Stock pile until then

    do you just have the recycling bags loose or are they in the special bins.
    them bins cost €300 - €400 each i think.
    €7 for a bag, €40 to take it when full, and you have to bring it to them, will they collect on farm, and how much dose it cost


  • #5
    ihatetractors
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭ihatetractors


    dar31 wrote: »
    do you just have the recycling bags loose or are they in the special bins.
    them bins cost €300 - €400 each i think.
    €7 for a bag, €40 to take it when full, and you have to bring it to them, will they collect on farm, and how much dose it cost
    Not full sure on cost to be honest, get a lorry to come between us and a neighbour. Ye use bags, bins are ridiculous price. usualy 6/5 bags for fert/seed 2ish bags of spray cans and 3 for silage wrap neighbour has abit more sprays and fert bags also, would have enough to fill it' jus load in our yard. Would just b##n them only uncles bit paranoid bout gettin some inspection for the docket.


  • #6
    GERMAN ROCKS
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,796 ✭✭✭GERMAN ROCKS


    i take them back into the coop where i buy the fertilizer and they can be doing what they like with them. if a person in the store refuses to take them, i ring the man who comes out to collect the cheque each month for them


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  • #7
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    GERMAN ROCKS wrote: »
    i take them back into the coop where i buy the fertilizer and they can be doing what they like with them. if a person in the store refuses to take them, i ring the man who comes out to collect the cheque each month for them

    I think your onto something here Germanrocks.

    Isn't there a law (not just farming products), that the seller has to take back the packaging??


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