Protecting Our Environment

Like all Californians, we care deeply about the need to protect our water and environment. This web site was developed out of a commitment to ensure that our products are used properly around the home and garden.

If you are a gardener or homeowner who chooses to use pesticides, we urge you to apply them responsibly. By following a few simple rules found on this site you can play an important role in preserving California’s water quality and environment.

The Urban Pyrethroid Stewardship

For the past three years, the Urban Pyrethroid Stewardship – a pesticide industry alliance – has been promoting “Apply Responsibly.” The campaign is committed to educating Californians in urban areas about environmentally responsible ways to handle, store and dispose of a wide range of home and garden pesticide products, including insecticides containing pyrethroids. The program also provides a wide range of resources for consumers who want to learn more about integrated pest management, pest prevention and general gardening.

Mission Statement

The Urban Pyrethroid Stewardship is an industry alliance formed to help educate Californians about environmentally responsible ways to handle, store and dispose of a wide range of home and garden pesticide products. Our mission is grounded in the following principles:

WE BELIEVE Californians are among the most conscientious consumers in the nation in trying to minimize adverse impacts to the state's water and environment.

WE BELIEVE California consumers want and deserve access to information that helps them become more environmentally responsible.

WE BELIEVE Californians have a right to choose for themselves how they control household and garden pests – whether with the safe, judicious use of pesticides or by other means.

WE BELIEVE that, as leading pesticide manufacturers, it is our duty to play a diligent and proactive role in helping ensure that those who purchase our products use them in the most environmentally responsible way possible.

WE BELIEVE the role of the stewardship program should not be to promote any one method of pest management over another, but to provide information to those Californians who have chosen to use our products, especially those living in urban and suburban areas of the state.  

WE BELIEVE industry shares a responsibility to continue supporting existing research and other efforts aimed at finding ways to lessen the environmental impact of pesticides commonly used in California.

WE BELIEVE in working constructively with government and other organizations to better educate the public about the proper usage, storage and disposal of our products.