LETTERS: New use for sugar cane trash (letter)*

Sir,Queensland sugar cane farmers have at last been delivered some “good news” via the Local Government Authority of Queensland (LGAQ) annual conference held in Cairns recently.The unanimous support by LGAQ delegates, representing all 125 City, Town and Shire Councils, for a new manufacturing industry producing biodegradable “sugar-derived” plastic bags, will help the sustainability of the family cane farmer.Sugar cane “trash”, or cane bio-mass, which currently is either burnt or left in the pad…

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