haylage wrappers

As in the stuff left over after you've finished the bale?

Use it either to make moving bit if straw around for bedding easier when loading it from the barn, or squashing it right down and put it in the bin.
 
if they are square and you take the haylage out carefully they cut down to make great liners for car boots for taking stuff to the tip or holding garden waste

You can also use them as big bags to move loose haylage

they also make a good waterproof covers for chicken runs lol
 
What if you have loads and loads of them :( I used to share a skip bin with the farmer next door but it got too expensive at £30/month so they have piled up- can't burn them as the neighbours all complain, looks like it's going to have to be a big skip and pay to have them removed :(
 
I also have lots.

I squash them down and stuff them into the empty feed sacks. I take the lot to the local tip. This service is funded by our council tax and is there to be used.

I realise that not all of us live within a reasonable distance of the council tip though.
 
aa, do they not stop you taking them to the tip, we too have a local refuse/recycling tip but they can ve funny about what you take, I get away with the paper type feed bags but not sure they will let me take hayledge bags ????
 
Nothing said to me yet, but I do fold them up and shove into big chaff bags and pony nut bags. I am in Worcestershire.

There are signs saying no commercial waste and no trailers.

I suppose I am technically in the wrong, but I am not a business, I keep horses for pleasure so my waste is 'domestic' waste and often goes to the tip alongside garden waste from the same property.

I dare say if I didn't bag it they might say something as I pulled yards of black plastic out of the boot.
 
Irishbabygirl said:
I've got a feeling you're not allowed to burn them due to the chemicals!
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Yes, toxins in the smoke. I squash one or two into a bin bag and put them in the land fill bin. There used to be a collection and recycling company round here years ago but I don't think they could make it pay - what do big farms do with the dozens they have? Pay to have them taken away?
 
No you cannot burn them. They should be put in a skip or can be recycled using one of the farm recycling schemes. You could if you only had one or two put them in your black bag rubbish. shouldnt burn feedbags, haylage nets, wrap, string or muck heaps. I get no end of phone calls from people saying horsey people are burnning.
 
I can get 3/4 wrappers into a just grass bag tie is up and take once in a while to our local tip which is only open Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon they had a go at me once about horse rubbish so I said what I am I should I do with it? Drive out into the country side and dump? He said it was farm waste. But after a friendly chat he said it was ok. Take about 2 a month.
 
Don't use it any more but I used to put one every two weeks into the normal landfil wheely bin, at the end of the winter I hada whole stack but got rid of them slowly over the summer - you can get rid of 25/30 over a whole year.
Maybe talk to the skip co and see if they recycle them and if they do would they let you bring them in by the horse trailer/ lorry load for a smaller charge rather than paying full wack for a skip?
 
JillA said:
what do big farms do with the dozens they have? Pay to have them taken away?
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Yes. We store all our silage wrap until we have a trailer load and then take it to the recycling plant where we have to pay for it to be disposed of. You can pay for a bin/skip type thing that they will come and empty for you but that is more expensive than taking it yourself.
 
We take ours to the tip for recycling, we don't have to pay, and we get a docket which proves that that's where our silage/haylage wrap is going in case anyone asks.
 
scribble said:
No you cannot burn them. They should be put in a skip or can be recycled using one of the farm recycling schemes. You could if you only had one or two put them in your black bag rubbish. shouldnt burn feedbags, haylage nets, wrap, string or muck heaps. I get no end of phone calls from people saying horsey people are burnning.
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I hesitate to ask but does that (muck heaps) apply to our new cottage industry of poo bricks as fuel? Are you in EH scribble?
 
Firstly it is illegal to burn plastics under the Air pollution act and soil act covered by the Enviroment agency. If found the fines are high.
Most farms have signed a declaration not to burn farm waste.
You can google recycle farm plastics and many companies come up,we use Solway but farmxs webb paton are useful too.
You will find one any where in the country now
It costs just a few pounds for taking a years supply away or can be free in some area.
From it they make Seats, chicken roosts/houses and Horse jumps. These you can buy back from the waste you provide them of the finished goods.
 
I pop them in black binbags and put them in the recycling bin at the house.

I did used to burn them, but when we got the recycling bins its easier just to squash it into a blak binbag and chuck it in there, I would only use about 2 large bales a month max and bin is emptied every two weeks so works out well :)
 
Took mine to tip in my small trailer, they even helped me when I managed to lock the wheel as a loose bit of the netting had gotten wrapped round it, no charge for taking it.... If only one or two I put them in our home black bin if room... Really surprised people burn them, the chemicals that would be released doesn't bear thinking about, and the smell !
 
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