Did You Know That...

• the average life expectancy of a pesticide in the environment is 3.5 years and it varies according to the pesticide's degree of persistency?
• factors such as pesticide characteristics, product-water relationship, action of microorganisms, and climate and soil hydrology conditions influence the chemical persistency in the environment?
• plastic pesticide containers collected by agri-chemical companies are recycled as fence posts and other stable plastic products?