Here’s something I think about all the time while working on our farm: trash. Not “trash" as in manure or the sacks of seed bags and giant plastic jugs of chemicals. I think about the detritus left on the farm-- rusty machinery and oil jugs, old tires and spools of barbed wire--and how much time we spend undoing what has been done.
Thanks Joe! We have taken chemicals to the county landfill where they are put into the "correct" disposal area. But many of the containers are unmarked or are chemicals they don't accept. And don't get me started on all those tires! Ugh.
Thank you, Beth. There is a proper and legal way to dispose of the old chemicals. In our area, we take them to the special waste recycle place in Council Bluffs. https://publichealth.pottcounty-ia.gov/recycling/ Most small Iowa counties do not have such.
Several years ago, when we took a load of old unused pesticides there, I was told that they were destined to be incinerated up in the Dakotas. We all hope that is the best remedy, of course. Perhaps there is a better method now.
Thanks Joe! We have taken chemicals to the county landfill where they are put into the "correct" disposal area. But many of the containers are unmarked or are chemicals they don't accept. And don't get me started on all those tires! Ugh.
Thanks for reading.
Beth
Thank you, Beth. There is a proper and legal way to dispose of the old chemicals. In our area, we take them to the special waste recycle place in Council Bluffs. https://publichealth.pottcounty-ia.gov/recycling/ Most small Iowa counties do not have such.
Several years ago, when we took a load of old unused pesticides there, I was told that they were destined to be incinerated up in the Dakotas. We all hope that is the best remedy, of course. Perhaps there is a better method now.
Joe Wearin
Hastings, Iowa
Great article!