Agricultural Waste

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Agricultural Waste is defined as unwanted waste produced as a result of agricultural activities (i.e., manure, oil, silage plastics, fertiliser, pesticides and herbicides; wastes from farms, poultry houses and slaughterhouses; veterinary medicines, or horticultural plastics)[1].

In the UK Waste Tonnage page in WikiWaste it identifies that there was 576,195 tonnes of Agricultural Waste in 2020 - the most recently reported DEFRA data based on 2016 data.

References

  1. Garcia et al, 2018, Recent Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities in Bioremediation of Hazardous Materials. 10.1016/B978-0-12-813912-7.00021-1.