DPW: August 28, 2003

Bring Household Chemicals, Home Electronics, Paint For Disposal or Recycling During Special Collection

Household hazardous waste collection scheduled for Oct. 11 at Carter Barron

(Washington, DC) The District Department of Public Works (DPW) will hold its bi-annual household hazardous waste drop-off event Saturday, October 11 from 9 AM to 3 PM in the Carter Barron Amphitheater parking lot at 16th and Kennedy Streets, NW. This service is free and open to all District residents.

DC residents can bring items including old cleaning and gardening chemicals, small quantities of gasoline, pesticides and poisons, acids, varnish, oil-based paints, solvents, aerosols, wood preservatives, spent batteries of all kinds, roofing tar, chemistry sets, automotive fluids, even asbestos floor tiles to the collection site for environmentally safe disposal or recycling. A professional hazardous waste contractor will remove materials from the residents' vehicles. A licensed hauler will then take the waste to an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-approved facility for processing.

Once again, DPW will have an electronics recycler onsite for the Household Hazardous Waste Collection. Residents may bring televisions and audio equipment, computers, computer parts and computer components for end-of-life disposal or recycling. All computer monitors and TV screens must be intact, not cracked, punctured or shattered. Electronics recycling is also offered at no charge.

Items that will not be accepted during the Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day include munitions, audio speakers, explosives, bulk trash, wooden TV consoles, propane tanks, microwave ovens and other appliances, as well as radioactive or biologically active wastes.

For more information on household hazardous waste, visit the DPW website in the Household Hazardous Waste section.