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Chemical waste holders in South Australia have registered the largest amount of product for ChemClear’s upcoming collection than any previous collection held in the state. Registrations reached more than 26,000 L/kg of agvet chemicals before the booking line closed on 28 March. The total is more than the last three collections...

Farmers and chemical users have just a few more days to register their unwanted agvet chemicals for this year’s collection in South Australia. ChemClear will be travelling around the state collecting unwanted and out-of-date agvet chemicals during the collection in the next couple of months. As part of the program, waste holde...

ChemClear is gearing up for its first state-wide collection for the year in South Australia. The program is calling on all waste holders to register their unwanted chemicals for the collection. So far more than 16,000L/kg of obsolete product has been registered for collection. More than 3000 L/kg of chemical already logged on th...

Two agricultural students have won Agsafe’s Annual Bursary Competition. Megan Pearce from Mandagery, NSW and Christopher Hallion from Gawler, South Australia each won $2,500 to go towards their studies in agriculture. Bursary applicants were required to fill out the online application form and submit a 500 word essay on how Ag...

Agvet chemical users in and around Melbourne and Sydney now have access to ChemClear’s new permanent facilities. The new site in Laverton North, Melbourne and St Marys, Sydney will hold collections once a month to service users looking to get rid of chemicals they no longer need or want. Chemical users in Melbourne and Sydney ...

Agvet chemical users in and around Melbourne now have access to ChemClear’s new permanent facility. The new site in Laverton North will hold collections once a month to service users looking to get rid of chemicals they no longer need or want. The new facility follows from Sydney’s recent permanent site opening in S...

A late year collection run in Southern NSW and Western Victoria has seen more than 4400L/kg of unwanted chemicals being disposed of through ChemClear. It was the program’s 21st collection in NSW and included pickups through Victoria on its way to and from its Melbourne depot. The collection covered 21 council areas travelling ...

Sydney’s agvet chemical users have disposed of more than 620 litres unwanted or out-of-date chemical at ChemClear’s new permanent collection point. Eight registrants turned up to ChemClear’s St Marys location in Sydney’s western suburbs to off-load chemicals they no longer need or want. ChemClear National Program Manager...

Steven Serafin and Brett Barker took out the Agsafe bursary award last year. They share their stories about how the educational grant has helped them pursue their dreams in agriculture. Steven Serafin Steven Serafin is a trainee agronomist with Yenda Producers in Yenda, NSW, and has been studying an Advanced Diploma in Agricultu...

Twelve companies which manufacture agvet chemical products for the agriculture sector have proven to be dedicated to product stewardship after signing up with AgStewardship Australia to participate in the ChemClear and drumMUSTER programs in the past year. ChemClear and drumMUSTER are leading environmental stewardship progra...