VANCOUVER —Vancouver Island and Fraser Valley farmers turned in more than 19,000 kilograms of unwanted pesticides and livestock medications during an October collection campaign.
The program is run by CleanFARMS, a not-for-profit group made up of pesticide manufacturers and distributors. Many of the collected products dated back 30 years or more to the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, said Russel Hurst, director of obsolete collections for CleanFARMS. The program is free for farmers and targets different areas of the province, with a schedule that aims to collect pesticides every three years in each region.
CleanFARMS collects the materials and hires a waste management company to dispose of them through high-temperature incineration.
