In cooperation with the Texas Cooperative Extension and Texas
Department of Agriculture, the Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality organizes regional waste pesticide collections of unwanted
or unused (waste) pesticides throughout the state as part of the
Agricultural Waste Pesticide Collection Program.
The free collections, conducted rain or shine, give
agricultural producers who use pesticides in Texas an opportunity
to dispose of unwanted products that may pose a hazard to them,
their families, and their surrounding farming and ranching
communities.
All this is done at no expense to them and the products are
accepted with no questions asked. The program is strictly voluntary
and no one is required to participate.
What Waste Pesticides Can You Bring to the Collection?
Please refer to these lists of items as to whether they are
accepted or not accepted at the designated collection center.
Accepted:
- rinsed,
empty pesticide containers
- insecticides
- fungicides
- rodenticides
- nematicides
- bactericides
- growth regulators
- harvest aid chemicals
- pesticides used on livestock
- other miscellaneous pesticides
- all formulations of herbicides, excluding those containing
2,4,5-T-Silvex
- unknown substances (please label the container "unknown")
- used motor oil and oil filters
- lead-acid batteries
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Not
Accepted:
- waste from chemical distributors or chemical dealers
- waste pesticides from chemical manufacturers
- waste from commerical generators
- explosive materials
- pesticides (herbicides) containing 2,4,5-T-Silvex
- unrinsed or improperly rinsed empty pesticide containers
- fertilizers or nutrient materials that are neither hazardous
nor contain pesticide admixtures
- products containing pentachlorophenol
- compressed-gas cylinders
- out-of-state waste
Useful Links
For more information on the Agricultural Waste Pesticide
Collection program, please contact 512/239-3150.
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