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The "sea of plastic" covering 20,000 ha of the Campo de DalÃas around El Ejido and Roquetas de Mar in southern Spain
The use of plasticulture in agriculture is growing rapidly, perhaps nowhere more visibly than around AlmerÃa in southern Spain. The eastern approaches to AlmerÃa, north of the airport, are densely covered, as is a large area further north-east, surrounding the towns of Campohermoso, Los Pipaces and Los Grillos (close to NÃjar).
The densest concentration lies about 20 km south-west of AlmerÃa, where almost the entire Campo de DalÃas, a low-lying cape, is now under plastic (an estimated area of 20,000 hectares). Further west, a similar, but smaller, coastal plain around Carchuna, southeast of Motril, is similarly enveloped. The technique is not restricted to the plains; it is also applied to wide terraces on the sides of shallow valleys, as the valley north of Castell de Ferro shows.
Elsewhere along the Costa Tropical and the Costa del Sol, particularly between AlmerÃa and Málaga, fruit trees growing on terraces in steeper valleys may be covered with vast tents of plastic netting.
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| Aerial photographs and coordinates | |
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Centre of Campo de DalÃas - Google maps Dense concentration of plastic greenhouses
36°52′N 2°23′W / 36.86°N 2.38°W / 36.86; -2.38 Eastern outskirts of AlmerÃa
36°55′N 2°09′W / 36.91°N 2.15°W / 36.91; -2.15 NÃjar valley
36°42′N 3°26′W / 36.70°N 3.44°W / 36.70; -3.44 Carchuna
36°44′24″N 3°21′54″W / 36.74°N 3.365°W / 36.74; -3.365 Valley north of Castell de Ferro
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One significant component of plasticulture is the disposal of used ag plastics. Technologies exist which allow for many ag plastics to be recycled into viable plastic resins for reuse in the plastics manufacturing industry.[1]
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^ Plastic mulch film recycling process Agricultural plastics recycling website, accessed 07.09.08
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American Society for Plasticulture
NASA photograph of greenhouses covering the Campo de DalÃa in 2004
Satellite pictures comparing the same area in 1974 and 2000
Aerial photo of part of the Campo de DalÃa, near El Ejido
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