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Whether it’s poisonous, environmentally harmful or just unhealthy, you can get it out of your home on Saturday, June 1 — chemical cleaning materials and containers, pesticides, paint strippers (but not paint) and the like — can be dropped off on Darien’s Household Hazardous Waste Day on Saturday, June 1. You also can participate in other events nearby (and avoid that weekend’s traffic), on other weekends if you’re unable to attend this one. — an announcement from the Darien Department of Public Works

CARMAGGEDON WARNING: With the I-95 closure at Exit 9, allow extra time for driving on main roads in Darien, especially near highway exits and possibly with some frustrated, angry drivers on the road.

Darien residents can bring household hazardous waste to various collection events held in southwest Fairfield County starting Saturday, April 28 in Weston and continuing about once a month through October. The next weekend, on May 5, there will be another one in Greenwich (see schedule below). Darien’s own Household Hazardous Waste Day is on June 2 and takes place on the south side of the Noroton Heights Railroad Station (the side closest to Interstate 95) where area residents will need to use the Hollow Tree Ridge Road entrance. Darien residents can recycle paint by dropping it off at the Recycling Center — also known as the Dump or the town Transfer Station — so no paint is accepted for Darienites at the Darien household hazardous waste collection. But if you don’t have a dump sticker, you can still go to a household hazardous waste collection event in a nearby town.

Last Saturday’s Household Hazardous Waste Day dropoff event at the Noroton Heights Railroad Station parking lot had much lower participation and volume than in previous years — but apparently that’s because paint is now collected regularly at the town transfer station/recycling center. This year, Darien will only pay $3,832.50 to a contractor that accepts the waste collected on Household Hazardous Waste Day. That compares with $19,750 last year, according to a memorandum from Assistant Darien Public Works Director Darren Oustafine. A total of 269 households (142 of them from Darien, or 48.2 percent) participated in the Household Hazardous Waste Day dropoff. Last year there were 1,001 households participating, and 74.5 percent were from Darien.

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If you can’t wait for Darien’s scheduled household hazardous waste pickup event on June 4 or need to go before or afterward, here’s a list of surrounding communities that will accept hazardous waste from Darien residents. The Darien Department of Public Works just published the list of Household Hazardous Waste Days for communities from Greenwich to Weston, Wilton and Westport, all of which have co-operative agreements with Darien to accept our residents’ hazardous waste. Here’s more information on Darien’s own pickup event. Here’s the schedule of nearby pickups: