Household Hazardous Waste
Summit Recycling
Project
has an on-going, year-round
Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) collection program.
HHW is accepted by appointment only and for a fee.
For more details (and a list of fees), click here to go to our
HHW Collection
Program page.
What is HHW?
Many products that are
commonly found in homes contain hazardous ingredients. These can be found
in products made for cleaning, painting, beautifying, healing, or disinfecting
and may be used in the house, yard, or garage. All of these should be
used, stored and disposed of responsibly.
Read the labels of the products in your home. Words such as: poison,
toxic, corrosive, volatile, flammable,
inflammable, combustible, explosive,
danger, caution, warning and harmful are signs that the contents are hazardous.
These products
should:
ALWAYS be disposed of
by trained personnel at a facility designated for HHW collection;
NEVER be flushed down the toilet, sink or drain where they will
eventually make their way into our water systems impacting wildlife and
potentially humans;
NEVER be thrown in the trash where they can injure or poison sanitation
workers and leach into our soil, polluting our groundwater;
and
NEVER
be poured on the ground or in the gutter or storm drain where
it will be carried directly into nearby streams, harming our wildlife.
Thank you to our generous
funders: The Town of Frisco, The Town of Breckenridge, The Summit Fire
Authority, Frisco Sanitation District, Breckenridge Sanitation District, Snake
River Treatment Plant, Silverthorne/Dillon Joint Authority, and the Summit
County Waste Facility (landfill).
And a very special thanks to The Summit Foundation for the
grant that made this new, on-going collection program a reality.
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