We missed hazardous waste pick up

Any ideas about alternative drop offs?   Essex county doesn't host again until the fall.

TIA

What chemicals do you need to dispose of?

Mostly fluorescent bulbs;  lithium batteries, garden chemicals and oil based paint & mineral spirits.

You can take the fluorescent bulbs and lithium batteries to Home Depot. You're out of luck with the other stuff - pretty much impossible to get rid of outside of the twice-a-year county events. 

Other counties have more than  twice a year!  Like 4-6 times/yr

do you have any friends in another county that will do it for you.  When I did this a few years ago, they weren't checking ID...anyone could drive up.  maybe bring a piece of mail from someone in the other county and say you are dropping off their stuff.

United Parcel South Orange used to take all batteries.

This guy took a small-ish pile of junk from our basement including a bunch of florescent tubes and charged us something like $50.  (But it was an add-on to a bigger job he was doing for our painter, so I don't know if that would have been the charge if we had just called him for our small pile.)

sac said:

This guy took a small-ish pile of junk from our basement including a bunch of florescent tubes and charged us something like $50.  (But it was an add-on to a bigger job he was doing for our painter, so I don't know if that would have been the charge if we had just called him for our small pile.)

 It's tough with companies like that to know what they do with hazardous things.  Are they just checking flourescents in a dumpster?  Who actually knows?

FilmCarp said:

sac said:

This guy took a small-ish pile of junk from our basement including a bunch of florescent tubes and charged us something like $50.  (But it was an add-on to a bigger job he was doing for our painter, so I don't know if that would have been the charge if we had just called him for our small pile.)

 It's tough with companies like that to know what they do with hazardous things.  Are they just checking flourescents in a dumpster?  Who actually knows?

 Every hauler I've ever used has refused to take chemicals, oil-based paint, etc. If a hauler did take that stuff, I'd worry that they were dumping it into a river somewhere.

Don't know about fluorescent bulbs. I never asked since I just took them to Home Depot.