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DANC Announces Upcoming Fall Household Hazardous
Waste Collection Days
Published: August 31, 2024
at 01:00 p.m.
By: Provided by Development Authority of the North
Country
Fall Household
Hazardous Waste Collection Days Set
 Doing some Fall cleaning? The
Development Authority of the North Country, in cooperation with its
regional county partners and the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation, will be sponsoring three free household hazardous waste
collection days this Fall to help residents in Jefferson, St. Lawrence and
Lewis counties properly and safely dispose of certain hazardous materials.
The free collection
days will be September 14 from 8 a.m. to noon in Lowville at the Lewis
County Transfer Station, 7956 NYS Route 26; September 28 from 8
a.m. to 1 p.m. in Canton at the St. Lawrence County Human Services Building,
80 State Highway 310 and; October 5 from 8 a.m. to
noon in Watertown at the Jefferson County Highway Garage, 21897 County
Route 190.
Items such as leftover
solvents, pesticides, pool chemicals, oil-based paints, latex paints, and aerosol
cans that still have product in them will be accepted, as well as fluorescent
light tubes. Empty aerosol
cans, motor oil, asbestos, tires, construction debris and explosives will
not be accepted. Electronic waste (televisions, computers) will not be
accepted, as it can be recycled at most county transfer stations.
Leftover paint,
both latex and oil-based, will be accepted and recycled. If you don’t want
to wait for a collection event, residents can now recycle their unwanted
paint year-round through a non-profit organization called PaintCare. Through the PaintCare
program, several paint retailers – although not all – in the tri-county
area will accept leftover paint for recycling. Check www.paintcare.org
for
details and locations. Empty paint cans of either type should be dried out
and disposed of in the trash.
In addition,
unwanted or unused prescription and over-the-counter medications from
residential households only will be collected by law enforcement at the
Canton and Watertown events.
The collection
events are open to residential households only; waste will not be accepted
from businesses, schools, farms or municipalities.
For a complete
listing of what will and will not be accepted at the Household Hazardous
Waste Collection Days, please visit https://www.northcountryrecycles.org/HouseholdHazardousWaste. There you can also find tips on how to dispose of items that will
not be accepted at the events.
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About the Development Authority
The Development
Authority of the North Country is a leader in providing regional
infrastructure and technical services to municipalities that strengthen
communities in Jefferson, St. Lawrence and Lewis counties. As a New York State Public Benefit
Corporation chartered in 1985 and based in Watertown, NY, the Authority
works with partners to meet the region’s infrastructure needs in water, wastewater,
housing, telecommunications and solid waste management, owning and
operating water and wastewater lines, over 2,000 miles of fiber network,
and a tri-county solid waste management facility in Rodman, NY. Visit the
Authority online at www.danc.org or www.northcountryrecycles.org.
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