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Environmental Impact Assessment: Protecting Taiwan's green spaces one ping at a time

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Environmental Impact Assessment: Taiwan's fields of black plastic

In Taiwan’s rural lowlands, it’s a common sight at this time of year. Having cleared and plowed their fields, farmers intending to grow pineapples, strawberries or certain other crops, roll lengths of thin black plastic across the ground. To keep the film in place, soil is piled over the edges.
Plastic sheeting or plastic mulch, as it’s often called makes farmers’ lives easier by suppressing unwanted foliage that might otherwise crowd out their crops.
As an inexpensive labor-saving technique, its appeal is obvious. Taiwan’s farmers are getting old (in 2014, their mean age was 62 years), and finding ....

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