. Agri-news. Agriculture. Operation CleanFarm - agricultural pesticide collection program heads for Alberta Alberta will be measurably safer and cleaner following a three- year stewardship program initiated by CropLife Canada. Operation CleanFarm will be offering Alberta farmers an opportunity to remove outdated, unusable, no longer registered or otherwise obsolete agricultural crop protection products. These products will be collected and properly disposed of at no cost. The first collection is scheduled for October 16 to 18. 2002 and will cover the province's Peace River region Collections i
. Agri-news. Agriculture. Operation CleanFarm - agricultural pesticide collection program heads for Alberta Alberta will be measurably safer and cleaner following a three- year stewardship program initiated by CropLife Canada. Operation CleanFarm will be offering Alberta farmers an opportunity to remove outdated, unusable, no longer registered or otherwise obsolete agricultural crop protection products. These products will be collected and properly disposed of at no cost. The first collection is scheduled for October 16 to 18. 2002 and will cover the province's Peace River region Collections in 2003 and 2004 will cover central and southern Alberta, respectively. Herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and rodenticides will be targeted by Alberta s Operation CleanFarm for collection and disposal at no cost to ; says Anne Mclnernev communications officer with Alberta Environment, Edmonton. The initiative offers farmers the opportunity to clean out and dispose of old crop protection products that may have been stored on-farm for years Operation CleanFarm will assist fanners eliminate potential leakage hazards posed b\ aging ; Alberta's program is part of a Canada-wide obsolete pesticide collection and disposal program that vvxs first introduced in 19()8 To date, some -*SS metric tonnes of obsolete agricultural pesticides have been collected coast to coast through programs in Atlantic Canada, Saskatchewan. Ontario and British Columbia. Programs are currently under development in Manitoba and Quebec. Bxsed on the success of Alberta s ongoing agricultural chemical container collection program. Alberta's Operation CleanFarm is expected to collect an unprecedented number of outdated, unusable, no longer registered or otherwise obsolete products," adds Mclnernev More than one million empty pesticide containers are collected in Alberta each year through the voluntary cooperation of Alberta farmers Alberta's Operation CleanFann is a collaboration
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