The Illinois Department of Agriculture is offering the ag community an opportunity to be good environmental stewards through its annual agrichemical container recycling program.  Farmers and agrichemical facilities are encouraged to start saving their empty agrichemical containers for select recycling days that will take place later this summer throughout the state.  

 

  Collection sites will accept only high-density polyethylene, #2 plastic agrichemical containers that are clean and dry.  Participants are responsible for rinsing them and removing all caps, labels, booklets and foil seals.   Metal and household pesticide containers are not eligible for the recycling program.

 

The program is a cooperative venture between the Illinois Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Container Recycling Council, GROWMARK, Inc., Illinois Fertilizer and Chemical Association, G. Phillips and Sons, L.L.C., Illinois Farm Bureau, and University of Illinois Extension.

To obtain a free brochure about the program, call the Illinois Department of Agriculture toll free at 1-800-641-3934.

 

The collection sites in the area and dates for the 2018 Pesticide Container Recycling Program are as follows:

In Logan County on August 7th from 1-3pm at Ag-Land FS in Lincoln;

In Tazewell County on August 8th from 9-11am at DCM Crop Care in Deer Creek;

In Champaign County on August 10th from 9-11am at United Prairie in Champaign;

In Christian County on August 23rd from 1-3pm at Effingham Equity in Pana.