Bins should not be used for storing pesticides. The Department of Agriculture can bring all the necessary equipment to the farm to dispose safely of old pesticides. Mike McCormick wants your old pesticides. Cancelled insecticides? Great. Leaking containers? Even better. Legal pesticides you no longer need? Those are fine, too, says McCormick, agricultural chemical specialist with the Washington State Department of Agriculture’s waste pesticide disposal program. What McCormick doesn’t want is for the pesticides to end up in a landfill with the potential to get into rivers or streams. “People get desperate,” he said. There are two ways the department […]