Xinjiang tackles White Pollution issues, banning ultrathin agricultural mulch films Hello, I've just finished writing a piece of news and I'd like to know what you think of it. Please help me correct the errors in the article. Thanks. Starting from May 1, Xinjiang is to see its agriculture bid goodbye to untrathin plastic mulches. It will be illegal to produce, sell and use untrathin agricultural plastics mulches from then on, which is beneficial to tackling the white pollution issues in the locality. As an efficient agricultural cultivation technology, mulching cultivation was first introduced to China in the late 1970s. The success this technology created in crop production was sensational, sending the output soaring, and thus was hailed as the White Revolution in agriculture. However, the success didn’t come alone and soon the side effects revealed themselves. It’s difficult to degrade agricultural plastic mulch films, a hydrocarbon polymer in the nature, and thus the residual of the mulch films accrued year by year, deteriorating soil conditions, reducing moisture in soil, causing soil hardening and nutrition loss. It’s measured that seeds planted on the residual report a seed-rotting rate of 6.92%, seedling-rotting rate of 5.17%, and the output falls by 12% or so. The greatest difficulty in plastic mulches recycling is that the films are so thin that they crack into pieces before they are retrieved. Therefore, the local government has make it clear that plastics mulch films with a thickness of no less than 0.01 mm, and a duration period of no less than 180 days are to be produced, sold and used in Xinjiang. The Agriculture Department of the Xinjiang autonomous region has been supporting 66 enterprises engaged in mulch films recycling from 62 counties all over the region. During the 13th Five-year Plan, each county will have a mulch-film recycling enterprises supported by the Agriculture Department.