Reminder: Free Household Hazardous Waste Collection This Saturday
The Development Authority of the North Country, in cooperation with Jefferson County and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, will be sponsoring a free household hazardous waste collection this Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon at the Jefferson County Highway Garage on Outer West Main Street in Watertown.
Items such as leftover solvents, pesticides, pool chemicals, oil-based paints and latex paints, and aerosol cans that still have product in them will be accepted, as well as fluorescent light tubes. Empty aerosol cans, motor oil, asbestos, tires, construction debris and explosives will not be accepted. Electronic waste (televisions, computers) will not be accepted, it can be recycled at most county transfer stations.
In addition, unwanted or unused prescription and over-the-counter medications from residential households only will be collected by law enforcement.
The collection events are open to residential households only; waste will not be accepted from businesses, schools, farms or municipalities.
For a complete listing of what will and will not be accepted at the Household Hazardous Waste Collection Days, please visit https://www.northcountryrecycles.org/HouseholdHazardousWaste.
