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Household Hazardous Waste Disposal Event In Lower Merion Sunday
Montgomery County residents can dispose of various hazardous household materials this weekend at the Lower Merion Transfer Station.
LOWER MERION TOWNSHIP, PA — Residents in Lower Merion Township and other Montgomery County municipalities can dispose of hazardous household waste this weekend.
A Household Hazardous Waste Collection event will take place Sunday at the Lower Merion Transfer Station, 1300 North Woodbine Ave. in Penn Valley.
The event is open to Montgomery County residents only.
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Business and contractors are not permitted to dispose of items at the event.
Registration is required and can be done online here.
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Those who need a gas can or container returned should tape a note to it stating that you want to keep it.
Residents using the service must stay in vehicles while at the event site.
Attendees are asked to print out their tickets if possible, or write their names and appointment times on a piece of paper.
Those who cannot attend the event should cancel their appointments through the Eventbrite ticket or by emailing recycling@montcopa.org.
Accepted items are:
- Acids, caustics, solvents
- Adhesives/solvents
- Antifreeze
- Aerosols
- Asphalt sealers
- Automotive products
- Ballast
- Butane
- Carburetor cleaners
- Caulking compounds
- Cleaning agents
- Cooking oil
- Diesel fuel
- Drain/oven cleaners
- Driveway Sealer
- Dry cleaning fluid
- Electric oil filled heaters
- Flammables
- Fertilizer
- Fire extinguishers
- Fluorescent bulbs
- Formalin
- Fuel additives
- Furniture stripper and finisher
- Gasoline
- Grease and rust solvents
- Herbicide (weed killers)
- Joint compound
- Kerosene
- Lead
- Lead acid batteries
- Loose mercury
- Mercury car switches
- Mothballs/flakes
- Motor oil
- Oil-based paint products
- Organic peroxide
- Other mercury bearing items
- Oxidizers
- Paint thinner
- Pepper Spray
- Pesticides
- Propane cylinders - mini 1lb cylinders only
- Primer
- Reactives
- Rechargeable batteries
- Rodent poison
- Roof cements
- Rug cleaners
- Septic tank degreaser
- Shellac
- Spot removers
- Spray paint products
- Stains and varnish
- Swimming pool chemicals
- Thermometers
- Thermostats
- Toilet bowl cleaners
- Transmission/brake fluid
- Turpentine
- Varnish
- Wood and metal cleaners
Items not accepted are:
- Air conditioners
- Alkaline batteries
- Appliances / white goods
- Asbestos
- De/humidifiers
- Electronics
- Explosives and ammunition
- Latex paint
- Radioactive waste
- Refrigerators
- Smoke detectors
- Tires
- Water coolers
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