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Reminder: Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day to
be Held Saturday at Fairgrounds in Lowville
Published: September 12, 2025
at 01:00 p.m.
By: Press Release from Development Authority of the
North Country
Reminder: Household
Hazardous Waste Collection Saturday in Lowville
New Location This Year!
The Development
Authority of the North Country, in cooperation with Lewis County and the
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, will be sponsoring
a free household hazardous waste collection this Saturday, September 13
from 8 a.m. to noon in Lowville at the Lewis County Fairgrounds, 5485
Bostwick St. This is a new location for this event.
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. Empty paint cans
should be dried out and disposed of in the trash.
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.
If you don’t want
to wait for the event, or wish to avoid lines, 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.
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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