The Recycling Ag Plastics Project (RAPP) invites You:
AG FILM BALING DEMONSTRATION TOUR of EQUIPMENT & BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMPs)
UPSTATE NEW YORK, August 7-10, 2006
The Recycling Ag Plastics Project (RAPP) invites farmers, recyclers, equipment dealers and all others to its Upstate New York Demonstration Tour of the "Big Foot" - a mobile baler designed for agricultural films. Targeted to the recycling and agricultural communities, the Tour will feature baling equipment, Best Management Practices for handling used films, and information about recycling markets.
The Ag Film Baling Tour begins 10am Monday, August 7, in Otsego County, at Cooperstown Holstein, Inc., Route 33, Phoenix Mills (just south of Cooperstown). Next stop is 2pm at Frazier's Greenhouse, 790 Southside Drive in Oneonta. There will be ongoing demonstrations Tuesday and Wednesday, August 8-9, at Empire Farm Days in Seneca Falls (demo site #129). The Tour goes to the Eastern Finger Lakes on Thursday, August 10 with demos 10am at Baker's Acres, 1104 Auburn Rd, State Rt. 34, Groton (Tompkins County) and 3pm at Iron Kettle Farm, 707 Owego Road, Rt 96, Candor (Tioga County).
QUESTIONS? See the RAPP website for tour details and additional information about ag plastics recycling: http://environmentalrisk.cornell.edu/AgPlastics/BigFootTour2006
Or contact:
· Lois Levitan, Cornell University Environmental Risk Analysis Program (607-255-4765, lcl3@cornell.edu);
· David Cox, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Otsego County 607-547-2536 ext. 226, dgc23@cornell.edu);
· Martha B. Clarvoe, Otsego County Conservation Association 607-547-4020, martha.clarvoe@gmail.com).
For information about the "Big Foot Baler," speak with the man who developed it - Dennis Sutton - during the Tour, or contact him at 941-761-8293 (dennis44@tampabay.rr.com).
The Recycling Ag Plastics Project is led by the Cornell University Environmental Risk Analysis Program in partnership with Cornell Cooperative Extension Associations, the Otsego County Conservation Association (OCCA), Tompkins County Recycling and Solid Waste, New York Center for Agricultural Health and Medicine (NYCAHM), Arrowchase Inc., and others.
Help make ag plastic recycling a reality in NY State!
PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT on LISTSERVS, WLETTERS & NEWSPAPERS. TELL YOUR FRIENDS & ASSOCIATES. See the web for a full schedule with directions, ready-for-use background story, fliers & posters:
< http://environmentalrisk.cornell.edu/AgPlastics/BigFootTour2006 >
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The RECYCLING AG PLASTICS PROJECT
Environmental Risk Analysis Program (ERAP)
Department of Communication
311 Kennedy Hall, Cornell UniversityIthaca, New York USA 14853-4203
Phone: (607) 255-4765
Email: envrisk@cornell.edu
Web: http://environmentalrisk.cornell.edu/AgPlastics
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