Abandoned Pesticide Collection Events Scheduled April 4-7

The Arkansas Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Abandoned Pesticide Program has scheduled four Abandoned Pesticide collection events from April 4-7 for the following seven counties: Arkansas, Howard, Little River, Montgomery, Pike, Polk, and Sevier. 

 Pike County Extension Agent Terrell Davis said the Pike and Howard County collection is April 5 at the Howard County Fairgrounds from 8 am to 1 pm.

Participation in a collection event is free and anonymous to anyone. Commonly collected items include old/outdated pesticides, as well as registered pesticides unusable because they have been exposed to the elements or have been held over from previous growing seasons. 

Since the program began in 2005, 5,351,431 pounds of unwanted pesticides have been collected in counties across Arkansas.