mudsticks
Squire
What would be more useful is facilitating farmers to do nutrient recycling more sustainably.
Effluent waste 'injection into soils, isn't particularly good for soils or soil life .
But facilitating that and food waste recycling, and sewage sludge treatment in a more sustainable way, takes joined up thinking, and some degree of adaptation of farming systems.
It's doable practically, but financially when farmers are already up against it, and politically when govs have a very hands off approach to environmental protection, there's little incentive or even ability to adopt these alternative methods.
Some are already doing it because of 'principal' or say if they are organically certificated, or they can afford it, others might like to but just aren't able to for a variety of reasons
Whilst policy dictates that 'the market' (lowest common denominator of standards) dictates everything, then we will probably end up making rather slow and patchy gains.
