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DANC Announces 2025 Schedule for Free Household Hazardous
Waste Collection Days
Published: April 04, 2025 at
06:00 p.m.
By: Press Release from Development Authority of the
North Country
Household
Hazardous Waste Collection Days Set
New Locations This Year for St.
Lawrence & Lewis Counties
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 five free household hazardous waste collection days this
spring and fall to help residents in Jefferson, St. Lawrence and Lewis
counties properly and safely dispose of certain hazardous materials. There
are new event locations for St. Lawrence and Lewis counties this year.
The free collection
days will be May 17 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Gouverneur at the St. Lawrence
County Fairgrounds, 85 E. Barney St., Gouverneur; June 7 from 8 a.m. to
noon in Watertown at the Jefferson County Highway Garage, Outer West Main
Street; September 13 from 8 a.m. to noon in Lowville at the Lewis County
Fairgrounds, 5485 Bostwick St.; September 27 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Massena
at the village DPW garage, 85 Robinson Rd. and; October 11 from 8 a.m. to noon
in Watertown at the Jefferson County Highway Garage on Outer West Main
Street.
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, 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 Paint Care.
Through the Paint Care 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 St.
Lawrence County 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.
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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