NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 3, 2004 Bring Household Hazardous Waste, Batteries for Disposal During Special Collection (Washington, DC) The District Department of Public Works (DPW) will hold its biannual household hazardous waste event at two locations on Saturday, April 3 from 9 am to 3 pm. Residents may bring household chemicals and other materials to the Carter Barron Amphitheatre parking lot at 16th and Kennedy Streets, NW, or to the Penn Branch Shopping Center parking lot at 3220 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE. This drop-off 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. A professional hazardous waste contractor will remove materials from residents' vehicles. The materials will then be taken to an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-approved facility for processing. Electronics recycling, normally conducted in conjunction with the household hazardous waste collection, will instead take place at the Carter Barron parking lot on April 24, from 9 am - 3 pm. Residents are asked to bring computers, cell phones, television sets, office equipment and other electronics to that special collection event. Items that will not be accepted during the Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day include munitions, explosives, bulk trash, wooden TV consoles, propane tanks, microwave ovens and other appliances, as well as radioactive or biologically active wastes. For more information, view household hazardous waste on the DPW website.