Pick up your baler twine

[Burnerbee]

I realise no one would leave baler twine on their own animals’ field, but if you see it, or indeed any plastic lying about where an animal could pick it up, please pick it up.

Storks - and I’m sure many other birds and animals are dying in vast numbers because they’ve become entangled in the stuff when their parents have brought it to the nest…

Killer in the nest: how young storks are being strangled by plastic

Researchers in Europe found everyday plastics, especially farmers’ baler twine, being used by the birds as a building material and entangling their young. It is a problem that affects other species too, say experts in the US, UK and Argentina

www.theguardian.com

 

[canteron]

This - and please don’t lazily throw your elastic bands away after plaiting - unless you enjoy poisoning the land and killing small birds.

 

[Landcruiser]

This brings back memories! I used to work for a couple that bought an old livery yard. The previous occupants had clearly chucked all their baler on the muck heap, then before they vacated they spread the lot over one of the fields and ran it in with a tracked vehicle. My job was to pull it all out of the ground, about an acre of it. Hardened mud with about a million miles worth of loops of baler twine embedded in it. I literally filled two large skips with it. Unbelievable that anyone would do that, and quite possibly the worst job I ever did.