Wicomico County 2014 Pesticide Container Recycling Program
Wicomico County Department of Public Works – Solid Waste Division in cooperation with Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) announces the 2014 Pesticide Container Recycling Program collection dates for the county.
Location: Newland Park Landfill, 6948 Brick Kiln Rd Salisbury, MD is the only site for collection of pesticide containers:
June 27 9:00am-3:00pm
July 25 9:00am-3:00pm
August 29 9:00am-3:00pm
September 26 9:00am-3:00pm
July 25 9:00am-3:00pm
August 29 9:00am-3:00pm
September 26 9:00am-3:00pm
This program is a combined effort of state, county, and federal agencies along with private industry working together to protect the environment. To ensure the success of the program, each container will be inspected by MDA personnel. Only clean, rinsed pesticide containers will be accepted. Any container not cleaned will be returned to the owner who will be responsible for disposing of the container in a legal manner.
Inspection Checklist
• All containers must be made from high density polyethylene
• The container must have held an EPA registered pesticide or the like
• Any size container will be accepted. All containers over 30 gallons must be cut prior to recycling
• Pesticide containers must be properly rinsed (pressure rinsed or triple rinsed)
• Caps and other non-HDPE parts such as metal handles and rubber linings, CANNOT be recycled
• Stained containers are acceptable provided no material can be smeared or removed when touched with a rubber glove
• Please remove all lids and label booklets prior to recycling
• All containers must be made from high density polyethylene
• The container must have held an EPA registered pesticide or the like
• Any size container will be accepted. All containers over 30 gallons must be cut prior to recycling
• Pesticide containers must be properly rinsed (pressure rinsed or triple rinsed)
• Caps and other non-HDPE parts such as metal handles and rubber linings, CANNOT be recycled
• Stained containers are acceptable provided no material can be smeared or removed when touched with a rubber glove
• Please remove all lids and label booklets prior to recycling
For further information contact the MDA Pesticide Regulation Section at 410-841-5710.
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This makes no sense. They want only empty containers that you have triple cleaned or pressure washed. OK, I'll dump the leftover pesticide in the ditch and then wash the jug out 3 times and dump that water on the ground or run through the dishwasher leading into to the septic tank, just so I can drive the container over to the dump. I'm thinking that putting it in the burn barrel is whole lot easier.
ReplyDeleteIf you empty and triple rinse the container, what happens to all the toxic poison? Do you dump it down the sewer? Put it down the sink? Apply on something an an unethical manner to get rid of it?
ReplyDeleteAnd once it's clean, wouldn't it just be a normal recyclable?
MR. POLLITT -- THIS IS ABSURD!
ReplyDeleteplease pardon my use of all capital letters, but this is too much to fathom.
1042am and 1108 am, Ain't that the truth. Just clean the container, keep the container, use the clean container and save yourself gas money. Hell, fracking company do more damage to the environment.
ReplyDeleteWonder why they never consulted anyone prior to release such idiotic recycling measures. This promotes bad environmental practices. This county needs a risk manager.
ReplyDeleteAre these politicians even SANE? Are they THAT stupid? Rinse them out? And do what with the residue?
ReplyDeleteI can see they thought long and hard on this one. This is a great example of politicians who don't really have much to do, so they start thinking of things. Things so far out and weird that ONLY a politician thinks they are viable and logical "programs".
They have made an art form out of turning a part-time civic duty into a full time oozing scab of a occupation. Dripping pus, blood, and lymphatic fluid, they think they are beauty queens doing us all whats best for us, whether we like it or not and whether its right or wrong.
These slimy, bribe taking, alcoholic, pedophilic, backroom dealing, losers can't see what a total blight they are on society.
EVERY society in history has eventually left their bloated bodies in the street.
They think "that will never happen to us".....
MUHAHAHAHAHAHA. It will.
America...see where and what we have become! "Bury" is but a microcosm of the much larger picture. It is the result decisions made upon feelings.. not hard truth facts.
ReplyDeleteI am reminded of an excerpt from a speech by T. Roosevelt, circa 1910, in Paris defending the Republic of the United States.
... "Self-restraint, self mastery, common sense, the power of accepting individual responsibility and yet of acting in conjunction with others, courage, and resolution- these are the qualities which mark a masterful people.."