Join together at drop-off to get rid of waste

It’s that time of year again — house­hold haz­ardous waste day is this Sat­ur­day. Time to gather up all that waste gath­er­ing dust on your stor­age shelves and get rid of it respon­si­bly. I would like to pro­pose a plan for you and your neigh­bors. If you all join together and col­lect the accepted waste then you can share the sug­gested dona­tion cost and take one car or truck to the site.

Here are the details: The event is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sat­ur­day, Oct. 22, at the Delaware County Fair­grounds; a Haz­ardous Waste Drop-off is being spon­sored by the Delaware Gen­eral Health Dis­trict and it’s Keep Delaware County Beau­ti­ful Cam­paign. (The pro­gram is funded by the DKMM Solid Waste Dis­trict). Please use the U.S. 23 entrance between the EMS Sta­tion and The Ware­house Ital­ian Restaurant.

This is what you want to gather up from your base­ment, your garage or shed and your neigh­bors: acids and caus­tics, ammu­ni­tion (max. 50 cal.), pool chem­i­cals, bat­ter­ies, fer­til­iz­ers, auto­mo­tive flu­ids, poi­sons, com­put­ers and com­po­nents, propane cylin­ders (max. 20 lb.), thin­ners, weed and insect killers, kerosene and fuels, cell phones and scrap tires (17 rim or less, limit 10).

Don’t gather these items: paint, tele­vi­sions or appli­ances. Also, no con­tain­ers larger than five gal­lons will be accepted with a max­i­mum num­ber of six five-gallon con­tain­ers per vehi­cle. Remem­ber, this col­lec­tion day is for indi­vid­u­als only — no busi­nesses, schools or churches.

The sug­gested dona­tion is $5 per car or pickup and $10 per large truck or pickup with a trailer. There is also a $1 fee per car tire, $4 per truck tire and $25 per farm trac­tor tire.

You still have time to do some fall clean­ing and get with your friends and rel­a­tives to haul in a bunch of haz­ardous waste where it will be cor­rectly dis­posed of or recy­cled. Ques­tions? Call Keep Delaware County Beau­ti­ful at 740–368-1700, ext. 2076.

Tues­day Trip­pier lives in Delaware and is a writer and mother of four with a spe­cial inter­est in learn­ing about green living.

Posted by Tuesday Trippier on Oct 17 2011. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Comments can be made below.