Developing infrastructure and markets for waste film and rigid plastics from all sectors of agriculture. RAPP is a collaboration of Cornell University with organizations, agencies, and businesses in support of agriculture, environmental protection, economic development and recycling.
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Why farmers like to use plastics instead of the older, heavier, breakable products they replace. The problem of disposing of used plastic, and the solution: Recycling!
Funding has come from the NY Farm Viability Institute, NYS DEC Environmental Protection Fund,
Cornell Cooperative Extension Administration, US EPA Region 2 Pollution Prevention,
USDA Rural Utilities Services/Northeast Waste Management Officials Association (NEWMOA),
NYS Empire State Development Environmental Services Unit
