Agricultural producers, dealers, professional applicators and homeowners who are storing unusable pesticides will have a safe, legal and free opportunity to dispose of them when the Idaho State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) conducts its annual spring unusable pesticide collections. The collections will be held in Nampa, Weiser, Lewiston and Coeur d’Alene.
Participation is free for the first 1,000 pounds of unusable pesticides per participant. Pesticides include herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, rodenticides and anything else with a “-cide” at the end of its name and should be brought to the closest collection site between the hours of 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. local time on the date and at the location listed below. No fertilizer, micronutrients, paint, solvents or motor oil will be accepted.
Nampa May 9 Pickles Butte Landfill, 15500 Missouri Ave.
Weiser May 10 ITD Maintenance Yard, 550 Indian Head Rd.
Lewiston May 11 Nez Perce County Fairgrounds, 1229 Burrell Ave.
Coeur d’Alene May 12 Coeur d’Alene Transfer Facility, 3650 Ramsey Rd.
The ISDA asks that participants register their expected total number of pounds of pesticides ahead of time by calling their local ISDA field office or the Boise office. Contact information is listed below.
Boise ISDA office: Victor Mason II, (208) 332-8628; Daniel Sandoval, (208) 332-8603; Brandon Smith, (208) 332-8665; Luis Urias (208) 332-8663; or Laura Morris (208) 332-8605
Hayden ISDA office: Chuck Hawley, (208) 762-9586 or Tim Stein, (208) 762-9598
“Since the program started in 1993, we have safely disposed of over 1.9 million pounds of unusable pesticides,” said Victor Mason II, manager of the pesticide disposal program. “Pesticides become unusable for many reasons, including loss of potency, exposure to temperature extremes, cancellation or suspension by state or federal authorities, or growers’ decisions to change their cropping rotations or practices.”
Click here for more information about the collections.