Household Hazardous Materials Collection Day

HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS MATERIALS COLLECTION DAY

Every year the Deer Park LEPC hosts a "Household Hazardous Materials Collection Day" for Deer Park area residents. The Collection Day is scheduled on a Saturday, often in April in celebration of "Earth Day" activities. The 2008 Collection Day will be scheduled this fall.

Provided as a free public service to area residents, the Deer Park LEPC pays for all collection, recycling and disposal costs which total $15,000 per year.

2007 COLLECTION DAY

The 2007 Collection Day was conducted on Saturday, April 28, 2007 at the City of Deer Park's Underwood Transfer Station located at 610 Underwood Road in Deer Park.

The annual Household Hazardous Materials Collection Day is an opportunity for Deer Park and La Porte area residents to collect and get rid of their old paints, antifreeze, used oil and oil filters, auto batteries, old tires, pesticides, swimming pool chemicals, household cleaning products, computers, cell phones and electronic products, and other household hazardous materials.

You can bring these products to the Underwood Transfer Station where LEPC and industry volunteers will remove, recycle, or safely dispose of them. There is NO COST for area residents to dispose of these products at the Collection Day Site.

CATEGORY	2004	2005	2006
Collection Date	4/24/2004	4/16/2005	4/29/2006
Number of volunteers	23	18	12
Households collected	170	147	151
Pounds of Paint	4,300	7,813	6,600
Gallons of Antifreeze	50	14	10
Gallons of Used Oil	300	50	30
Number of Oil Filters	20	16	20
Number of Auto Batteries	40	40	16
Number of Tires	30	40	30
Pounds of computers and electronics	NA	NA	155
Pounds of Waste Recycled	400	75	25
Total Pounds Safely Disposed	13,100	12,184	11,060