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2024 Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day

May 4, 2024 8:30 AM TO 12:30 PM TURNKEY RESIDENTIAL DROP-OFF CENTER, 18 Isinglass Drive, Rochester NH
Posted on: March 19, 2024 - 12:44pm

What are Household Hazardous Waste Products:
A product is hazardous when its use or disposal poses a threat to your health or the environment. To help you identify these hazardous products federal law requires them to be labeled with warnings about their use, storage and disposal. The words "Danger" (most toxic) "Warning", "Poison" and "Caution" (least toxic) are used to help identify the various degrees of toxicity. These words and the properties that make the product hazardous are listed to help you use these products safely.


What To Do With A Potential Hazardous Product
•Identify which items are hazardous household wastes.
•Set aside those products that you will use up before you move.
•Ask someone if they want any of the remaining products.
•Check with your city or town to see when the next household hazardous waste collection day will be held.
•DO NOT dispose of any chemicals, petroleum products, or other hazardous wastes DOWN the drain or on the ground. IT IS AGAINST THE LAW.

You can bring up to 10 gallons of the following to the HHW Day Site:

House and Garden Products:
Weed killers and fertilizers, no -pest strips; ant spray and baits; bug and rodent-sprays; poisons; flea repellents; and shampoos; bug sprays; houseplant, insecticides; oven cleaners, drain; toilet cleaners; wood/metal cleaners and polishes; rug cleaners, bleach, pool chemicals, tub, tile and shower cleaners; button cell and lithium batteries.

Garage Products:
Car wax and polish; fuel additives; carburetor/fuel injector cleaner's air conditioning refrigerants starter fluids; creosote; antifreeze, transmission and brake fluid.

Workshop/Painting Products:
Oil or enamel based paint stains and finishes, paint strippers and removers; photographic chemicals; fixatives, adhesives, glues or other solvents.

Items NOT ACCEPTED at the Collection Day Site:

Latex Paint:
Use the paint or open can and let paint dry. You may put an absorbent material such as shredded newspaper or kitty litter in it to dry faster, then you can discard can in trash.

Motor Oil/Tires/Computers:
For the collection center nearest you call your municipality.

Zinc Carbon and Alkaline Batteries:
Batteries old after May 1996 are non-hazardous and can be placed in the trash.

Recyclable Batteries & Fluorescent Bulbs:
Some local disposal locations in the area are Lowes, Rockingham Electric (with a small fee) and Tri-City Tool Crib (always a good idea to call first to make sure they are still accepting the items).

Car Batteries:
Most places that sell car batteries will take them back. Some communities may have battery collections.

Propane Tanks:
Return to a place that sells them.