Essex County has scheduled its next household hazardous waste collection day for Saturday, October 13, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
County residents can bring a variety of things that should not go in the regular garbage to the Essex County Fleet Maintenance Facility at 99 West Bradford Avenue in Cedar Grove.
Materials being collected at the Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day include pesticides and herbicides, paint thinners and solvents, oil-based paint, chemistry sets, barbecue propane tanks, pool chemicals, photo developing chemicals, 9-volt and NiCad batteries, fluorescent light bulbs and ballasts, products that contain mercury, car batteries, home fire extinguishers, aerosol spray paint and automotive fluids.
Items not being collected include latex paint, unlabeled or unidentifiable materials, asbestos, AA, AAA, C and D household batteries, regulated medical waste or infectious waste, commercial or industrial waste, empty containers, explosives, munitions, ordinance or reactive materials.
