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Wastes Banned From The Trash Page 2 of 3 and vacuum gauges contain mercury. • Mercury thermometers. Mercury thermometers typically contain about a half gram of mercury. Many health clinics, pharmacies and doctor's offices have thermometer exchange programs that will give you a new mercury-free fever thermometer in exchange for your old one. • Mercury-added novelties. Examples include greeting cards that play music when opened; athletic shoes (made before 1997) with flashing lights in soles; and mercury maze games. Household and Landscape Chemicals • Flammables and poisons. Includes solvent-based (oil) paints and reactive and explosive materials. • Acids, oxidizers, and bases. Includes some pool chemicals and cleaners. • Pesticides and herbicides. Many pesticides and herbicides cannot be disposed in the trash. Consult the product label or check with your local household hazardous waste_ag_ency. Paints and Solvents • Latex paint. • Oil-based paint (also listed under flammables). • Nonempty aerosol paint or solvent cans (all nonempty aerosol cans are banned from the trash). • Solvents. Includes materials such as paint thinners, finger nail polish remover, etc. Building Materials • Asbestos. Includes some older kinds of cement, roofing, flooring and siding. More information on asbestos in home is available from the U.S. EPA. • Treated Wood. Includes wood that is treated with chromium copper arsenate (CCA). Automobile-Related • Antifreeze. • Batteries. • Motor oil and filters. • Tires. (Note that tires are not considered hazardous, but automotive tires are banned from the trash for other reasons) Other • Compressed gas cylinders. Includes propane tanks used for BBQ or plumbing. • Needles and sharps generated in home health care. Includes hypodermic needles, hypodermic needles with syringes, blades, needles with attached tubing, syringes contaminated with biohazardous waste, acupuncture needles, root canal files, broken glass items such as Pasteur pipettes, and blood vials. • PCB-containing materials. Includes paint and ballasts that contain polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB). • Photo waste (silver bearing). • Nonempty aerosol cans that contain hazardous materials. Many products in aerosol cans are toxic. And many aerosol cans contain flammables, like butane, as propellants for products like paint. If your aerosol can is labeled with words like TOXIC or FLAMMABLE don't put it in the trash unless it is completely empty. http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/HHW/Info/ 5/1/2006