Ash offers mastisis-beating beds.

The article focuses on milk producer David Edge's technique of winter bedding dairy herd on waste-paper ash from a recycling plant. His 240-cow herd in Flintshire, Wales, is just over the border from Chester, England and about two miles from a paper mill which recycles waste paper into newsprint. Edge is now one of several milk producers benefiting from an alternative bedding, while the mill reduces the amount of waste that might end up as landfill. The ash is produced from burning short fibre waste paper which comes from glossy magazines.