Waste Recovery Plan - Reprofiling of Agricultural Land ?
The land is currently in arable use. Sewing, spraying and harvesting of crops is
now carried out using machinery of a very large size. Combine harvesters for
example are commonly 10 meters in width, sprayer booms can be wider still and
require level ground on which to operate. This is particularly important in the
headlands of fields where turning of equipment on undulous ground may cause
booms and combine heads to come in to contact with the ground.
You can demonstrate benefit in this instance by taking a scale rule, and placing
on the cross sections. A ten meter straight line (representative of a boom or
combine), when placed on undulous areas will show it present it is impossible to
operate modern arable farm machinery in the proposed areas.
There may be benefit from increased domestic production and less reliance on
imports (emissions from shipping are saved). There is benefit from less machine
hours per unit of production (emissions saved from reduced machine
operation). There is benefit from less damaged equipment due to grounding
(emissions saved from non-replacement machine parts). Image: werktuigendagen [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Southwest
Environmental Limited
