And maybe you missed this from a more recent post from StockSpock. . .

http://wrvo.org/post/madison-county-recycling...e-plastics

Expanding the program beyond Madison County could have profound effects. Experts figure every head of beef or dairy cattle in New York state generates eight pounds of this ag plastic a year.  And with 700,000 head of beef or dairy cattle in the state, that translates into 2,800 tons of waste a year.

Lois Levitan, program leader of the Recycling Ag Plastics Project at Cornell University says New York state has always been a leader in recycling ag waste. But she says the impact of this takes it to a different level.

"People used to think it was progressive to talk about cradle-to-grave of products.  So the cradle would be making the plastics, and the grave would be, what do you do at the end," said Levitan. "Now they're talking about cradle-to-cradle -- how do you make it into something else?  How do you have zero waste?"