Household Hazardous Waste Pesticides, engine degreasers, oven cleaners, oil paints, and many other household cleaning fluids should not be disposed of in the trash nor should they be poured down the street drain.  Toxic products are hazardous to human health and if disposed of in landfills or down storm drains have the potential to leak into drinking water sources.

If you have toxic household products (check the label) you wish to dispose of, consider these options:

• If still usable, consider giving it to someone who can use it up.
• If old or otherwise unusable dispose of it properly during the City’s annual Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day, held on a Saturday, in the month of May. Notices are sent to residents prior to the event giving the date and location.
• Consider choosing less toxic alternatives.

Materials Accepted During Household Hazardous Waste Day (subject to change):

Kitchen/Bathroom	Workshop
Bug Sprays	Solvents
Floor Care Products	Paint Brush Cleaner w/Solvent
Furnitrue Polishes	Cutting Oil
Metal Polish w/Solvent	Glue (Solvent-based)
Medicine (Expired)	Paint (oil-based)
	Automotive Paint
Garden	Paint Thinner
Fungicides	Paint Stripper
Herbicides	Primer
Insecticides	Turpentine
Pesticides	Varnish
Rat Poison	Wood Preservative
	Fluorescent Light Bulbs
Garage
Automatic Transmission Fluid	Miscellaneous
Auto Batteries (or Battery Acid)	Unknown or Unusable Waste
Brake Fluid	Artist's Paints, Mediums
Car Wax w/Solvent	Dry Cleaning Solvents
Diesel Fuel	Fiberglass Epoxy
Fuel Oil	Gun Cleaning Solvents
Gasoline	Lighter Fluid
Kerosene	Household Batteries
Metal Polish w/Solvent	Moth Balls
Motor Oil	Mercury Debris
Other Oils	30 lb. or less empty propane tanks

Special information about latex paints:
Latex or water-base paints are generally not hazardous in the way that oil-base paints are.  Partially full cans of latex paint can be solidified using kitty litter, sand or some other absorbent.  Once solid, cans (without lids) can be disposed of with regular household garbage.  Empty paint cans, with only a thin film of dried paint can be recycled with metals.                      

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