Household Hazardous Waste Day is this Saturday, May 4 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Island Beach Parking lot on Arch Street. Residents of Darien and other nearby towns are invited.
You can also wait for Darien’s Household Hazardous Waste Day on June 1 (or see this year’s schedule of HHWDs below, which allows you to procrastinate longer).
For information call the Greenwich Department of Health at 203-622-7838 or Greenwich Departmentt of Public Works at 203-618-3001.
Items Accepted:
Home:
Bug Spray
Floor Care Products
Furniture Polish
Metal Polish in Solvent
Lighter Fluid
Mothballs
Mercury Thermometers/Thermostats
Garden & Yard
Fungicide
Herbicide or week killer
Insecticide
Rat Poison
Swimming Pool Acid
Automatic transmission fluid
Car wax in solvent
Diesel Fuel
Fuel oil
Gasoline
Kerosene
Other oils
Workshop
Cutting oil
Glue – solvent based
Paint – all paint, latex and oil based
Paint cleaner in solvent
Paint primer, thinner, stripper
Turpentine and varnish
Wood preservative
Photographic chemicals
Items that will NOT be Accepted:
Asbestos
Highly reactive materials
Bulk containers of herbicides, pesticides
Gas cylinders
Radioactive materials
Explosives
PCBs and derivatives
Infectious waste
Unknowns
— The information about the Greenwich event is above and comes from an article on GreenwichFreePress.com.
The information below is from the Darien government website:
This refers to Darien’s Household Hazardous Waste Day on June 1. You can go to any of the Household Hazardous Waste Days in the area (see the list).