From the lens of a passing satellite, County Almeria is one of the most recognisable spot on the planet: the roofs of tens of thousands of closely packed plastic greenhouses form a blanket of mirrored light beaming into space.
The sea of plastic covers 20.000 ha of the Campo de Dalias around El Ejido and Roquetes de Mar. Further west, a similar but smaller, coastal plain around Carchuna, south-east Motril, is similarly enveloped. The technique is not restricted to the plains. It is also applied to wide terraces of the sides of shallow valleys, as the valley north of Castell de Ferro shows.
One significant component of plasticulture is the disposal of used ag plastics. However, technologies exist which allow for many ag plastics to be recycled into viable plastic resins for reuse in the plastics manufacturing industry.
Sources: The Guardian, Wikipedia, Youtube.
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