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<br /> Used Oil/HHW Home Wastes Banned From the Trash
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<br /> Many common products that we use in our daily lives contain More information...
<br /> Grant Information potentially hazardous ingredients and require special care when Where to take
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<br /> Kowm8mmts illegally disposed hazardous waste can be released into the Zero—Waste home page.
<br /> Links environment and contaminate our air, water, and possibly the food
<br /> we eat. And by throwing hazardous waste in the garbage, you can cause additional hazards
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<br /> Events Regulations to protect public health and the environment have been changing. This is
<br /> because we now know that some cVnnnnon items that have traditionally been thrown in your
<br /> Statutes and Regs household's or small business' trash cannot be safely disposed in landfills. These common
<br /> Used Oil Recycling items are referred to as hazardous waste, and some of them as "universal waste" (u-
<br /> waste). As of February 9, 3006, all "u-waste" items are banned from the trash. For
<br /> additional information on u-waste, please check the Department of Toxics Substances
<br /> Control (DT5C) Web site.
<br /> The bottom line is that we must keep hazardous materials out of the trash by bringing them
<br /> somewhere to be recycled or safely disposed such as a household hazardous waste
<br /> collection facility. Check with your local waste management agency to find out where to
<br /> take these items in your area.
<br /> What Is Banned?
<br /> Lights, Batteries, and Electronics
<br /> * Fluorescent lamps and tubes. Includes fluorescent tubes, compact fluorescent
<br /> lamps, nnata| halide lamps, and sodium vapor lamps.
<br /> • Batteries. Includes all batteries, AAA, AA, C, D, button cell, 9-volt, and all others,
<br /> both rechargeable and single use. Also lead-acid batteries such ascar batteries.
<br /> p Computer and television monitors. Most monitors are currently considered
<br /> hazardous waste when they have lived their life and are ready for recycling or
<br /> disposal, including cathode ray tube (CRT), liquid crystal diode (LCD), and plasma �
<br /> monitors. Learn about the State program to offset the cost of proper television and
<br /> monitor ...
<br /> w Electronic devices. Includes computers, printers, VCRs, cell phones, telephones,
<br /> radios, "How do I know if a particular lectronic
<br /> device can't be thrown in the ' for more information.
<br /> Mercury-Containing Items
<br /> * Electrical switches and relays. These typically contain about 3.5 grams ofmercury
<br /> each. Mercury switches can be found in some chest freezers, pre-1972 washing
<br /> machines, sump pumps, electric space heaters, clothes irons, silent light switches,
<br /> automobile hood and trunk lights, and ABS brakes.
<br /> w Thermostats that contain mercury. There is a mercury inside the sea/ed glass "tilt
<br /> switch" of the old style thermostats /not the newer electronic kind).
<br /> m Pilot light sensors. Mercury-containing switches are found in some gas appliances
<br /> such asstoves, ovens, clothes dryers, water heaters, furnaces, and space heaters.
<br /> * Mercury gauges. Some gauges, such as barometers, manometers, blood pressure,
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