COUNTYWIDE : Growers Turn In Chemicals
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Agricultural officials Saturday rounded up about 48,000 pounds of banned, unregistered and outdated chemicals during a one-day collection program involving 51 growers from throughout Ventura County.
From 8 a.m. to noon, participants delivered herbicides, insecticides and fertilizers to a maintenance yard at 682 El Rio Drive in Oxnard.
The growers paid $3.50 a pound to have Camarillo-based MSE Environmental Inc. take the chemicals off their hands. The materials will be trucked to Arkansas for incineration.
“There are a lot of people who have had stuff stored in sheds for years and years,” said David Buettner, the county’s chief deputy agricultural commissioner. “They haven’t had anyplace to take it.”
By noon, barrels of chemicals filled a section of a parking lot shielded by a large white-and-yellow canopy.
Buettner said the county might conduct another collection program later this year.
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