Cross County
Agriculture
L’Anguille River Watershed Old and Abandoned Pesticide Collection and
Disposal Project
 Project
goal: To assist farmers and landowners in the L’Anguille Watershed (Lee, St.
Francis, Cross, Woodruff, Poinsett, and Craighead Counties) with the safe
collection and lawful disposal of unwanted pesticides.
This program is open to all agricultural producers and landowners free of
charge. Commercial pesticide applicators and dealers do not qualify for the
program.
These collections are made possible with support from the Arkansas Natural
Resource Commission, the Cooperative Extension Service, and the Arkansas Farm
Bureau.
Pesticides are collected by licensed hazardous waste professionals and
disposed of in hazardous waste incinerators and landfills.
Producers who would like to participate need to register by filling out an
inventory form available
at their county Farm Bureau and county Extension offices. All information is
confidential. The inventory form allows the collection personnel to know what to
expect in terms of quantities, packaging, and types of pesticides.
Since last year the Abandoned Pesticide Trust Fund funded collection events
in nine counties (the L’Anguille Watershed counties plus Mississippi, White, and
Drew Counties). These events collected and disposed of 159,091 pounds of
unwanted and unusable material.
This program is free of charge, funded by pesticide registration fees. For
every pesticide registered in Arkansas a $50 fee is paid by the manufacturers to
fund this program. The collection cannot accept explosives/ordnance, radioactive
materials, household chemicals, petroleum products, medical wastes, fertilizers,
solvents and paints.
The final waste pesticide collection and disposal for Cross County is
scheduled for:
- Date: Friday, November 9, 2007
- Location: Gibbs Farm Granary, one mile west of Wynne on U.S. 64.
- Time: 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.
- Inventory forms due
to Farm Bureau: November 2, 2007
For more information, contact Billie Majors, Multi-County Extension Agent -
Pesticide Disposal Coordinator, at 870-261-1730, or
bmajors@uaex.edu.
Hazardous waste professionals removing pesticides.
Mountain of calcium arsenate collected in 2006 (40,000
lbs).
Waste pesticides collected for disposal.
Pesticides being loaded for transport to hazardous waste
incinerators for disposal.
Pesticides to be collected and removed from the L’Anguille
Watershed this fall (2007).
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