Toxic Trash

 I was recently talking with someone who proudly announced that she used to travel long distances to see her boy friend and in order to reduce travel time, she would relieve herself into a plastic container while driving and throw it out the window. I’ll hold my editorial remarks but refer you to Sid Freeman’s feelings. He’s an Idaho farmer. “The amount of garbage these days up and down our roadways is just terrible. It’s costing farmers lots of money and time to keep that all cleaned and picked up so that our contracts on our crops are still good.”

 Believe it or not, disposal of waste can be viewed as hazardous waste and the impact on a farmer can be much more profound than just picking up litter.

 “We’re finding bottle that truck drivers use to save time by not having to stop at the restroom areas and they actually urinate in these bottles and throw them out of their truck windows along the highways. In one instance I found a spittoon bottle ¾ full of tobacco spit and it was actually out on the edge of my onion field. Had an auditor come by and saw that, he could possibly condemn my field of onions. We have to adhere to a Primus audit or a Good Agricultural Practice audit which is administered through the USDA.”

 Please respect farmers, the providers for this country.