The EPA (Environmental Protection Association) has compiled a list of common household products that are hazardous (view and/or print the list by clicking here.)
The next time you’re tempted to toss that old paint can into the garbage, don’t. Yes, I know it’s a pain in the butt to wait until there is a hazardous waste pickup or dropoff day where you live but please don’t be like my neighbor who left his old paint cans out for garbage pickup; got annoyed when the trash collectors wouldn’t take them because they are hazardous waste; then put them in black plastic bags and buried them at the bottom of his trash can for the next week’s pickup.
It worked. The paint cans got taken with the rest of his regular garbage the following week. I know this because my neighbor bragged about how he tricked the trash collectors.
I guess as long as his grass stays green and his water stays uncontaminated that’s all that matters. Sad, isn’t it?
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