Environmental Services:  Hazardous Waste Disposal

Bring all of your:

• Drain cleaners
• Pool chemicals
• Fluorescent light tubes
• Automobile oil
• Antifreeze
• Polishes and strippers
• Pesticides
• Liquid paint and thinners
• Car and boat batteries
• Any product marked:
  Flammable
  Toxic
  Reactive
  Corrosive

No Business Hazardous Waste Accepted!!! Please refer to Waste Disposal by Businesses for info on who to contact concerning disposal.

Household Battery Collection – Please bring all of you Ni-Cd, lithium, button cell, and alkaline batteries to the Household Hazardous Waste Center at Rosemary Hill SWMF. The Center also accepts used automotive and boat batteries.

Used Oil Recycling – According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), well over 200 million gallons of used motor oil are dumped into the environment by do-it-yourself oil changers, most of whom have not stopped to consider the potential consequences of their actions.

Help build a better tomorrow today! Here’s how you can contribute:

• Drain your oil and transfer it into clean, preferably reusable, containers… like milk jugs.
• Never mix used oil with other substances. Doing so not only makes recycling more difficult, it can be dangerous as well.
• We accept up to 5 gallons per visit at the Rosemary Hill SWMF or any of the County’s  ECCs (except Kingsley Lake).

Fluorescent Lamp Recycling (and other Mercury-containing devices) – Elemental Mercury (Hg), while present in very small quantities in these items, is a neurotoxin that can readily contaminate and accumulate in our environment whenever these lamps and devices are improperly disposed of.

Types of Hg-containing lamps and devices currently accepted:

• Fluorescent lamps and bulbs
• Thermostats and switches
• Thermometers and manometers
• High intensity discharge (HID)
• Metal halide
• Mercury vapor
• Low pressure sodium vapor
• High pressure sodium vapor

Proper handling procedures are:

• Do not throw lamps in trash.
• Do not tape lamps together.
• Place waste lamps in the container in which the replacement tubes or bulbs arrived, when practical.
• Store in a safe place to prevent breakage.
• Place broken bulbs into a heavy plastic bag.

How to identify household hazardous chemicals:

• Corrosive – caustic – Can burn or destroy living tissue. Some examples include drain cleaners, oven cleaners, rug and upholstery cleaners, toilet bowl cleaners, and chlorine bleach.
• Flammable/ignitable – Can be easily set on fire. Items such as oil-based paints, lacquer, paint strippers, thinners, and other solvents are in this category.
• Toxic/poison – Capable of causing injury or death through ingestion, inhalation, or absorption. Some toxins can cause cancer, genetic mutations, or fetal harm. Examples include paint removal and thinner, oil-based paints, flea powders, and insect sprays.
• Explosive – Can detonate or explode through exposure to heat, impact, or pressure. Examples include aerosols and metal polishes.
• Reactive – May generate excess heat, noxious fumes, violent reactions, or explosions when mixed with some other substance, such as mixing ammonia and bleach.
• Infectious – May cause disease in humans and animals. Examples include biomedical waste and used syringes.