It’s Halloween season and some of the scary stuff lurks inside your home
Sometimes walking through your home can feel like touring a haunted house; ghosts from past hobbies, remodeling projects or previous owners can be found everywhere. These ghosts are left over household hazardous wastes that may lurk in your basement, garage, shed, closets, or under your sink. Improper disposal of common household products such as motor oil, pesticides, and paint may harm people and the environment.

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Hazardous materials should never be disposed of inside or around your home, a ditch, on the ground, down a storm drain, in a septic tank or in the trash. To identify hazardous products/waste look on the label for signal words such as: poison, corrosive, combustible, caustic, volatile, flammable, danger, caution or warning.

Clark County has a number of collection facilities and mobile collection events to help in safely removing household hazardous waste as well as block foam and unwanted electronics from your home. These items can be disposed of at one of the following county-sponsored sites or events.

Central Transfer and Recycling Center
11034 NE 117th Avenue; Vancouver
(360)256-8482
Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

West Van Materials Recovery Center
11034 NE 117th Avenue; Vancouver
(360)256-8482
Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Burlington Environmental Services
625 S. 32nd; Washougal
(360)835-8594
First Tuesday each month 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Mobile Collection Events
Clark County Public Works
(360) 397-6118, ext. 4352 for
collection schedule information.

In addition, the county and local cities offer a free home collection service for eligible senior citizens and residents with disabilities who have no means of transporting household hazardous waste to the collection facilities or mobile collection events. To find out if you qualify for this service, please call (360) 397-6118, ext. 4352.

Business-generated hazardous waste will not be accepted at these sites or events. There is no charge for household hazardous waste brought to the facilities or events. However, there is a 25-gallon limit. In addition, the facilities and satellite collection events do not accept unlabeled products, empty paint cans or containers, leaking containers, asbestos, explosives, ammunition, radioactive material, or biological/infectious material. For more information on hazardous waste disposal, including disposal options for businesses, call (360) 397-6118 ext. 4352 or visit www.clark.wa.gov/recycle/recyclingA-Z.html.

Contact: Jim Mansfield, Endangered Species Act
Phone: (360) 397-6118 ext. 4016
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