The new legislation has been a long time coming, but is very welcome. Perhaps it will cut down on trees, fences and hedges being draped with ragged black plastic, and clouds of thick roiling black smoke clogging our lungs when our neighbour burns his bale wrap.
We don't use black wrap, but we do have garden plastic mesh, polythene and frost fleece, but not much of it. I am about to contact the gardening industry (maybe Monty Don or a gardening magazine ? Those who sell the stuff?) about their suggestions for recycling.
The plastic waste we have from the smallholding is mainly plastic feed sacks and licky buckets. Both of these are easy to re-use. Crystalix buckets are great for disinfectant foot dip ,storing spare bike engine parts, books, and for growing successional carrots and salads in. Plastic feed sacks get used for all sorts of things, including filling with rubbish for collection, covering weeds, storing kindling. Any left over of both sacks and buckets have a ready clientelle amongst non farmers for their own storage and waste disposal.
So it's just the plastic sheeting from our garden which continues to be a problem.