4-25 IAT Pesticides

 PESTICIDE DISPOSAL PROGRAM schedules collections for southwestern Idaho. Southwestern and northern Idaho agricultural producers, dealers, applicators and homeowners who are storing unusable pesticides will have a safe, legal and free opportunity to dispose of them this May when the Idaho State Department of Agriculture conducts pesticide disposal collections in Nampa, Weiser, Lewiston and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

Participation is free for the first 1,000 pounds of unusable pesticides per participant.  Anyone with unusable herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and rodenticides should bring them to the closest collection site between the hours of 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on the date and location listed below. I talked with ISDA’s Vic Mason: ““These collections provide a mechanism for disposing of pesticides in an environmentally safe and sound manner. The program has safely collected and destroyed over 1.3 million pounds of unusable pesticides.” 

  Date                            Location

NAMPA                      May 6, 2013                PICKLES BUTTE LANDFILL

                                    9a-1p                           15500 Missouri Ave., Nampa, ID

WEISER                     May 7, 2013                IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF

                                    9a-1p                           TRANSPORTATION YARD

                                                                        550 Indian Head Road, Weiser, ID

LEWISTON                May 8, 2013                NEZ PERCE COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS

                                    9a-1p                           1229 Burrell Rd, Lewiston, ID

COEUR D’ALENE     May 9, 2013                COEUR D’ALENE TRANSFER STATION

                                             9a-1p                           3650 Ramsey Rd, Coeur d’Alene, ID