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Saturday - Hazardous Waste Amnesty Day
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Location: Blogs The Green Zone an environmental blog |
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| Posted by: Dave Rhea |
3/24/2007 11:36 AM |
This Saturday, Ocala will host hazardous waste amnesty day. City residents may drop off household items such as garden chemicals, paint thinners, gasoline, automobile batteries, used oil and/or cleaning fluids at Fire Station No. 5, 2340 NE 25th Ave. from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The city will also accept up to five used tires, if they are removed from the rim and no larger than 16 inches.
Waste amnesty day set for Saturday (3/24)
This Saturday, the city will again turn its attention to garbage, with a hazardous waste amnesty day. City residents may drop off household items such as garden chemicals, paint thinners, gasoline, automobile batteries, used oil or cleaning fluids at Fire Station No. 5, 2340 NE 25th Ave. from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The city will also accept up to five used tires, if they are removed from the rim and no larger than 16 inches. |
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Re: Saturday - Hazardous Waste Amnesty Day |
By Wolfgang on
4/27/2007 2:42 PM |
Unfortunately, when local recycling centers refuse to accept tires, furniture, or other items and tell consumers instead to drive to Baseline Landfill, it increases the number of people who will manage to let those items get "lost" on the roadside or in an isolated (read "wooded habitat or wetland") area. Particularly with tires, the small amount of water they hold from rainfall makes an excellent breeding area for mosquitoes, sheltered from their natural predators like mosquitofish. We need more regular events like these countywide, with good advertising, or a regular policy of acceptance. We've got to make it easier for folks to dispose of items in an ecologically sound way. Dropping a single old car battery in a lake can cause lead pollution there for decades, and dumping old oil in near a body of water can cause a smaller, localized version of the Exxon Valdez.
Unfortunately, there are plenty of folks who won't do as you and I might, and drive 20 miles or more to dispose of their waste properly. |
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Re: Saturday - Hazardous Waste Amnesty Day |
By Cathy on
4/30/2007 7:48 PM |
| I think not only should there be more amnesty days, but they should be on a regular schedule as well...like every 2nd and 4th Saturday or something like that so that people can get in the regular habbit of doing it. We bring our garbage to the green box every couple of weeks and out of the blue they have a furniture drop off day. No advertising, no warning, just a furniture box there for the day. We have been trying to get rid of an old video game chair for quite a while now, it just sits in our back yard next to the garbage cans waiting for it's turn to be recycled, what's our option, throw it on the side of the road like every body else???? If we were that kind of people, we wouldn't be looking at it sitting there for the past two years... |
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Re: Saturday - Hazardous Waste Amnesty Day |
By Dave Rhea on
5/1/2007 11:23 AM |
| Cathy - I will call the city and get that information for you. It will be posted here if they have any sort of regular schedule. If they don't, I'll ask why and tell you here in my blog. Keep checking back, and thanks for reading! |
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