Every year our Groundwater Stewardship Coordinator, Dan Busby, works with the local agricultural community to collect thousands of pounds of pesticides. This year, over 9,000 lbs of pesticides were collected! The Michigan Groundwater Stewardship Program (MGSP) pays for the disposal costs of these chemicals. These collections, called “clean sweeps,” are coordinated with the county’s Household Hazardous Waste collections. The pesticides, both liquid and dry, known and unknown may have otherwise ended up buried in the ground. Eventually these lethal chemicals could have seeped into our groundwater. If you have some pesticides or other chemicals to dispose of, please bring them to a “clean sweep” collection. The collections are over for this year, but will resume in the spring. Please visit www.recyclesmart.info for more information.