Public Health Department

“…working to enhance our community’s total well-being by promoting healthy lifestyles, protecting health, and preventing disease.”

Household Hazardous Waste

Pouring household chemicals down the drain, dumping them on the ground, or putting them in the trash is harmful to you and the environment. But there is something you can do.

The Environmental Health Division offers a household hazardous waste drop-off collection program. Every year approximately four events are held from May through September. Annual collection dates and times are posted here and in local newspapers.

Listed below are acceptable and non-acceptable items during collection:

Acceptable Items

Acids
Aerosol cans
Anti-freeze
Batteries (flashlight and button)
Cleaners
Fluorescent light bulbs
Herbicides
Mercury

Old gasoline, kerosene, fuel oil (must be in an approved container) (EH can pour from your approved container)
Pesticides
Pool chemicals
Solvents
Stain and oil-based paint
Other miscellaneous products

NON-Acceptable Items

Biomedical waste
Car batteries
Driveway sealer, small amount (dry out or add absorbent and throw away)
Explosives

Motor oil
Radioactive material
School chemicals (e.g., from chemistry lab)
Smoke detectors can be triple wrapped and thrown away

Latex paint: DO NOT BRING LATEX PAINT. (Latex paint is considered non-hazardous waste. Your waste hauler will take it with your trash pick-up provided it is in a solid form with the lid removed. Mix kitty litter or sand in the paint and leave it in the sun to dry. Once the paint is solid, leave the lid off so the waste hauler can verify there is no liquid.)

Environmental Health contracts with a licensed hazardous waste hauler who arrives the same day as the collection to remove the hazardous waste. Many items get recycled, reused, incinerated, or encased for disposal.

Remember, household hazardous waste is a guarantee in our community. We use chemicals daily. Please purchase, use, store, and dispose carefully to reduce damage to our environment.

Non-toxic cleaning recipes are available online.

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