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NO HAZ Frequently Asked Questions
What is Household Hazardous Waste (HHW)?
Who is Eligible?
What Materials Are Accepted?
What Materials Are Not Accepted?
How do I Participate?
What is the NO HAZ Consortium?
What Happens to the Collected Household Hazardous Waste?
What is Household Hazardous Waste (HHW)?
Household hazardous waste is the unwanted or unusable portion of consumer products that contain substances that can harm human health or the environment. Unlike hazardous wastes from industry, hazardous wastes from households are not regulated. Most households can identify at least a few products as hazardous. Leftover household cleaners, paint, pesticides, batteries and prescription medicines are just a few. These types of common, but hazardous products are used every day. They have made our modern lives easier, but they can also be toxic to our health and our environment -- when we use them and when we throw them away.
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Who is Eligible?
Any resident of a NO HAZ Consortium member community can attend any collection event. Consortium member communities are Addison, Brandon, Commerce, Groveland, Lake Angelus, Lake Orion, Leonard, Oakland, Orion, Ortonville, Oxford, Oxford Twp., Rochester, Rochester Hills, Waterford, White Lake, and Wolverine Lake.
Don't see your community listed? Contact your municipal office for household hazardous waste disposal options.
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What Materials Are Accepted?
Household
- Ammonia cleaners
- Bleach
- Cleaners & polishes
- Drain cleaner
- Household Batteries
- Mothballs
Automotive
- Auto fluids
- Engine degreasers
- Gasoline
- Motor Oil
- Starter fluid
- Oil filters
Yard & Garden
- Pesticides
- Herbicides
- Pool chemicals
Home Improvement
- Adhesives
- Aerosol cans
- Asphalt / roofing tar
- Driveway sealers
- Paint removers
- Paint thinners
- Paint -- oil-based
- Paint -- latex
- Wood preservatives
- Wood stain
- Wood varnish
Miscellaneous
- Carbon monoxide detectors
- Fire extinguishers
- Flares
- Fluorescent lights
- Photo chemicals
- Mercury thermometers
- Propane cylinders
- Radon detectors
- Reactives
- Smoke detectors
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What Materials Are Not Accepted?
No Business or Industrial Waste
No Medical Waste
No Radioactive Waste
- Explosives
- Ammunition
- Firearms
- Asbestos
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How do I Participate?
There will be no appointment process for the 2008 collections. Member residents can participate at anytime in any/all of the collections. Call the NO HAZ hotline at 248-858-5656 for more information.
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What is the NO HAZ Consortium?
Seventeen communities in Oakland County have come together to provide residents a safe and an environmentally responsible way to dispose of household hazardous waste (HHW). The Consortium's goal is to provide regular, reliable and easily accessible HHW collection services to its residents. Any resident in any NO HAZ Community may participate in any of the HHW Collection Events.
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What Happens to the Collected Household Hazardous Waste?
All HHW collected is handled by a household hazardous waste vendor in accordance with local, state, and federal regulations. Depending on the material type, some items are recycled, some are used as energy recovery (blended and used as fuel) and some are disposed of in a hazardous waste landfill.
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