Each year, OCRRA sponsors three Household Hazardous Waste Drop-Off Days at
its Ley Creek waste drop-off station in North Syracuse (spring, summer and fall).
To participate in a drop-off day, you must live in the OCRRA Service Area (includes
all of Onondaga County, but excludes the Town and Village of Skaneateles, NY).
You must also have a reservation.
OCRRA is now taking reservations for its Spring
collection day (Ley Creek Transfer Station only) on Saturday, May 19, 2007.
Please click here for a reservation
Acceptable Items:
- Automotive products such as transmission or brake fluid, engine degreaser,
anti-freeze, diesel fuel and contaminated gasoline.
- Painting supplies, including all types of paints (up to 50 cans), stains,
or finishes, paint thinner, turpentine, brush cleaner, paint stripper, and wood
preservatives. NOTE: Place empty oil-based, latex or aerosol paint cans in your
trash. To dispose of small amounts of leftover latex paint, leave the container
in a well ventilated place until the paint is completely dried out, then deposit
the entire container in the trash.
- Garden supplies and pesticides.
- Cleaning supplies, such as oven cleaner, drain cleaner, lye, toilet bowl
cleaner, floor and furniture polish, mothballs and products containing petroleum
or ammonia.
- Miscellaneous products, such as fluorescent light bulbs, lighter fluid, household
batteries, kerosene, driveway sealer, small propane cylinders (camp stove type)
under 20 lb. size, nail polish remover, and any product whose label has descriptions
such as toxic, flammable, poison, corrosive. Loose asbestos that has been double
bagged (NO ASBESTOS PIPES).
Unacceptable Items:
Only materials from OCRRA Service Area households with appointments will be accepted.
- More than 200 lbs. of material
- More than 50 gallons of paint
- Any container
larger than 5 gallons
- More than 50 lbs. of a solid
- Any 55-gallon drums
- Any empty paint cans or cans with dried up paint (put them in the trash).
- Wall
paper paste or dry wall sizing.
- Auto
batteries (take to battery retailer for recycling).
- Empty
aerosol cans that did not contain hazardous
materials (put in blue bin).
- Motor
oil (take to service station).
- Large
propane gas cylinders (take gas grill size to Agway for refill or disposal).
- Controlled
substances.
- Etiological,
pathological, or medical waste.
- Explosives.
- Radioactive
materials.
- Non-hazardous
products (i.e. soap).
- Asbestos
pipes.
Year-round disposal options
Can't wait until OCRRA's next household hazardous waste collection? Environmental
Products and Services*, a local provider of environmental services, offers a
year-round drop-off operation for household hazardous waste.
*The Agency's reference to this company's website does not constitute or imply
endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by OCRRA, and is provided for information
purposes only.
Earth friendly chemical substitutes
You can make less hazardous products by using common household ingredients.
Try
some of these...
Questions?
If you have any questions about OCRRA's Household Hazardous Waste
Drop-Off Day, or need help identifying household hazardous wastes, call the Operation
Separation Hotline at 453-2870, or email us your question and we'll respond.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation presently funds
50% of OCRRA's Hazardous Household Waste Day costs through state grants.
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