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Agsafe will complete their office move from Canberra City to Barton this week. Mailing address and phone numbers remain the same. The new physical address is Level 1, 40 Macquarie St, Barton ACT. ...

With the booking line for the West Australian collection closing on 22 April 2016, now is the perfect time to register your obsolete agvet chemicals. Over 7,000 litres of obsolete chemical has already been registered by waste holders in the state, including farmers, rural businesses and golf courses. “Registrations for this ye...

ChemClear is heading to Western Australia in June 2016 and is urging chemical users to register their surplus or unwanted agvet chemicals for safe disposal before 22 April 2016. “We encourage WA farmers to seize the opportunity to use our program this year as it will be another two years before we head back across the Nullarbo...

ChemClear has successfully completed its largest collection of unwanted agricultural and veterinary chemicals in Victoria. The ChemClear truck covered 5,127 kilometres over five regional runs in late 2015 and collected product from hundreds of chemical users including farmers, businesses, golf courses, government departments and...

As most Agsafe members will know, earlier this year the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) cancelled the registration of any product containing the chemical Dichlorvos following a suspension and phase out period. The chemical is an organophosphorus insecticide and was mainly used as a fumigant or sp...

What is wrong with this picture? If you look closely, you can see up to 100 empty plastic containers scattered around the dam. There are a number of reasons to worry about this activity, including the following: Looking at the distribution of the drums around the periphery, we can only assume that the drums were dumped in the ...

For the last 12 years, thousands of chemical users have relied on ChemClear to dispose of their unwanted agricultural and veterinary chemicals. Over this time, the program has grown to become the most successful stewardship – or closed loop – waste disposal program operating in Australia. ChemClear collections help neutralis...

The use of any chemical product containing Fenthion ceases after October 2015 following a 12 month phase out period by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA). Fenthion is a broad-spectrum organophosphorus insecticide used to control insect pests in agricultural, commercial and domestic situations an...

ChemClear has scheduled a collection for October/November 2015 for Victorian chemical users to register their surplus, unwanted, unlabelled, mixed or out-of-date agvet chemicals for safe disposal. Since the program’s inception in 2003, ChemClear has undertaken approximately 34 regional collection runs across Victoria and retri...

ChemClear has successfully completed its second largest collection of unwanted agricultural and veterinary chemicals in Queensland. The final pool equated to 37.16 tonnes, with 22,041 L/kg of Group 1 classified chemicals and 15,120 L/kg of Group 2 chemicals collected from farmers, businesses, golf courses, government departments...