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Engineering Aspects of the Disposal of Unused Pesticides, Pesticide Wastes, and Pesticide Containers¹

ABSTRACT

From preliminary research on various methods of disposal of pesticides and containers it appears that incineration offers the greatest potential for rapid reduction of these materials. Work has been done in the laboratory, on model incinerators, and on the design of a pilot plant and a full-scale plant for incineration and disposal of pesticides and containers. The primary over-all objective of this work is to provide a safe method for disposal of hazardous materials generated in the future (without pollution of the air, soil, and water), and to provide a means for removing existing potentially hazardous materials from the environment.

¹ Paper presented Dec. 28–29, 1970, in Chicago, Ill., at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Section "O" Agriculture Symposium on "Agriculture and the Quality of the Environment in the Seventies." This study was supported by Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Grant no. 12-14-100-9182 (34), administered by the Plant Sci. Div., Beltsville, Md.

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² Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, State College, Miss. 39762.