Needham To Hold Household Hazardous Waste Day

Needham will hold a Household Hazardous Waste Day on Saturday, Oct. 20 from 8 a.m. to noon, at the DPW Parking Lot, 470 Dedham Ave. Please enter at Defazio Field.

No sign-up required. This event is open to Needham residents only. No commercial operations or contractors are allowed. A driver’s license or RTS sticker is satisfactory proof of residency.

Acceptable materials include:

• Acids
• Air conditioning refrigerant
• Airplane glue
• Anti-freeze
• Artist supplies
• Asbestos (must damped also double wrap in heavy duty contractors bag)
• Bleach cleaner
• Brake & transmission fluid
• Car & home wax
• Car batteries
• Chemistry kits
• De-greasers
• Disinfectant
• Driveway sealer
• Fertilizer
• Flea control products
• Floor & metal polish
• Fuel / gasoline / kerosene
• Furniture polish
• Gas or small propane cylinders (less than 20 lbs.)
• Herbicides
• Lighter fluid
• Mothballs
• Oven cleaner
• Partial & full aerosol cans
• Pesticides
• Photography chemicals
• Rodent killers
• Roofing tar
• Rubber cement
• Rug & upholstery cleaner
• Spot remover
• Swimming pool chemicals

Paint, thinners or stains will not be accepted at the DPW during the Household Hazardous Waste collection; however, these items can be disposed of at the RTS on Saturday, Oct. 20 bewteen 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. A disposal sticker is required to enter the RTS Facility.

Items that will not be accepted during the hazardous waste collection day include:

• Ammunition
• Brush cleaner
• Explosives
• Fireworks
• Infectious & biological wastes
• Medicines & syringes
• Oil or latex paints
• Paint thinner/stripper
• Pathological
• PCBs
• Radioactive waste
• Shock sensitive materials
• Smoke detectors
• Varnish
• Wood stain

For more information about Needham's Household Hazardous Waste Day, call the DPW at 781-455-7550, or visit www.needhamma.gov/RTS.

For more information about pain collection, call the RTS at 781-455-7568 or visit www.needhamma.gov/RTS.