Forum Landbruksplast: How to Prevent Plastic Pollution in Agriculture
Forum Agricultural Plastic (Forum Landbruksplast) is a project under the auspices of the County Governor of Vestland and Bioregion Institute.
In Forum landbruksplast, key actors from agriculture, public administration, private business, research and voluntary organizations meet. The project gathers the entire value chain; from manufacturers and sellers of plastic products, the user, the farmer, collection schemes, waste management, to research on microplastics and bioplastics. The project has received start-up support from the County Governor in Vestland and Vestland County Council as well as applied for funding from the Trade Environment Fund. In the three project years, the project will focus on establishing thematic working groups that will work with knowledge sharing, measures and sub-projects that will remove the plastic, prevent the plastic comes out in nature and measures to replace plastic (1)
The agricultural sector is the third largest consumer of plastic in Norway. Plastic on the road, from round bales, garden cloths and cover to fruit trees, ends up as pollution in nature and the soil, ends up in animal feed, and finds its way to rivers and water and sea. It is estimated that every year more than eight million tonnes of plastic end up in the oceans, and approximately 80 million tonnes of plastic waste go astray as a result of poor waste management systems (2).
Categories
Preventing plastic pollution
in agriculture
Delivery
Innovative production
Communication
Design Thinking
Spin off
Timeline
2021 – ongoing
Funded by
County Governor of Vestland
Vestland County Council
Partners
NIVA
Småbrukarlaget Hordaland
Småbrukarlaget Sogn og Fjordane
Grøntutvalet i Norges Bondelag
NLR Vest
Felleskjøpet
IHM Voss
Grønt Punkt
NORCE
Norges Miljøvernforbund
Friluftsrådet
Rydd Norge Vestland
Bergen kommune Bymiljøetaten
Research team
Birgitta Ralston
Linda Figueiredo
Åsne Hagen
