Farming Today - 25/05/2009

Sarah Falkingham investigates why increased UK veg production means that more fields become 'lakes of plastic'. She visits a grower in West Yorkshire with over 1,000 acres of carrots who uses plastic covering to produce a crop every week of the year. But with only a handful of cleaning and recycling sites in the UK, the plastic is dumped in landfill after a few months of use.