Check with your supplier for return and refill options.
Tanks of helium gas (such as for blowing up balloons) cannot be recycled. They can be emptied and discarded as garbage. Helium gas does not pose a fire hazard (unlike propane and oxygen)
Category: <span>Hazardous Items</span>
Uncontained liquids are not allowed in the garbage.
For disposal of unwanted latex paint only, you may leave the can open to dry out the paint, then throw in the garbage with the lid off.
Do not dry out oil-based paint – the vapors are flammable and harmful to your health. Try to it use up or give away excess paint to friends, neighbors, community groups.
Take left-over paint to a Household Hazardous Waste Facility. Visit the Make the Drop web site to find your closest drop off location.
Some scrap metal companies take empty underground storage tanks. Look in the yellow pages of the phone book under “Scrap Metal Recyclers.”
These are not accepted at your local landfill.
Oil must be drained from tank and disposed of at a Household Hazardous Waste Facility.
Do not put in the garbage!
No syringes or sharps, even if clipped, can be disposed of in the garbage. Used syringes should be placed in a puncture resistant container with a tight fitting lid, labeled “SHARPS, DO NOT RECYCLE” and taken to your local landfill and put in the special collection bin for disposal – free (limit one gallon per trip).
Some local pharmacies take them back (call first), or ask your doctor or pharmacist.
Distributors of HVAC products operate a take back program to recycle these. Visit Switch the Stat to find your closest location.
Do not put in the garbage: mercury is hazardous. Do not handle with bare hands! Mercury can harm the nervous, digestive and respiratory systems, and the kidneys. If mercury is disposed of improperly, it can make its way into the environment, where it may harm fish and water quality.
To prevent misuse of medicines and pollution of the environment, please do not dispose of leftover medicines in the garbage or down the drain.
Ask about disposal at your local pharmacy, consider using a medicine-take-back program in your area.
Visit the Make the Drop web site to find your closest drop off location.
Includes gas mixed with oil, diesel. Take contaminated gasoline to HHW location.
Must use gasoline-compatible containers (no food jugs, milk cartons, etc). No more than 30 gallons and no containers over five gallons in size without approval.
Visit the Make the Drop web site to find your closest drop off location.
Otherwise, empty gasoline containers can go in the garbage.
Roadside flares that do not contain an explosive charge can be taken to a HHW location.
Visit the Make the Drop web site to find your closest drop off location.
Although local governments don’t charge a fee at household hazardous waste collection sites, it is expensive to properly dispose of hazardous waste. Use up or give away that extra if you can! Better yet, minimize the use of hazardous products.
Bring non-empty fire extinguishers to a HHW location.
Empty CO2 and halon (bromo difluoromethane) extinguishers can also be recycled. Look in the yellow pages of the phone book under “Fire Extinguishers” for companies that recycle them. See Local Hazardous Waste Management Program for more information.
The HHW facilities accept fire extinguishers for recycling. Visit the Make the Drop web site to find your closest drop off location.
Otherwise, empty fire extinguishers can go in the garbage.
Unwanted flammable and hazardous products should be taken to a HHW location.
Visit the Make the Drop web site to find your closest drop off location.
Do not pour down drains, into toilet or storm drains, or pour into soil. These all result in water pollution.
Although local governments don’t charge a fee at household hazardous waste collection sites, it is expensive to properly dispose of hazardous waste. Use up or give away that extra if you can! Better yet, minimize the use of hazardous products.
