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Household Hazardous Waste

Hazardous waste makes up 1 percent of waste, but has the potential to be the most harmful.

Chemical products in your home such as cleaners, paint thinners, sprays, and pesticides can be a potential hazardous to the environment if they are not recycled correctly.

Most of us have a range of these products stored in our homes. If they are emptied down the drain, or into storm sewers they can contaminate water. 

Hazardous products put in the garbage typically make up less than one percent of the waste stream but their presence in landfills has the potential to do more harm than the other 99+ percent.  A product is consider hazardous if it has one or more of these properties: toxic, flammable, corrosive, reactive, explosive, or radioactive. 

Recycling Process




1. Sort & Ship

Household products are sorted
by their type




2. Prepare to recycle

Each class of product requires a specific treatment that will destroy it, render it non-hazardous, recycle it, or otherwise keep it out of landfills and out of the environment




3. Shred

Poisons, pharmaceuticals, and PCBs are incinerated in specialized facilities. Corrosives are neutralized. Adhesives, cleaners, and some oxidizers are subject to physical or chemical treatment.



4. Reuse  

Propane cylinders, solvents, fuels, and some mercury-containing products fluorescent light bulbs, thermometers to name a few can be recycled.


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One thing to do different

Please invest some time in stores to seek out non-toxic alternatives to hazardous products.


New Recycling Programs

More communities are setting up Household Hazardous Waste Days to allow residents to get rid of their hazardous materials in a safe and environmentally responsible way.


Effect on our Community

Awareness is resulting in more product choices that are less hazardous, natural household soaps and cleaners, LED light bulbs for example.



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