Household hazardous waste
Butler County Recycling and Solid Waste District will resume its weekly drop-off program for household hazardous waste, which will run 2 to 7 p.m. every Thursday from June 2 to Sept. 29. Items can be dropped off at Environmental Enterprises, 10163 Cincinnati-Dayton Road, West Chester Twp.
Accepted items include: paint, automotive fluid, oil, lacquer, antifreeze, pesticide, mercury, household and car batteries, compact fluorescent bulbs, long fluorescent tubes, adhesives and pool chemicals.
HAMILTON — Saturday is the first chance this year Butler County is offering residents to get rid of old electronics.
And future opportunities will be every second and third Saturday of the month through September.
Recycling old electronics is “expensive and labor intensive,” said Anne Fiehrer Flaig, Butler County Recycling and Solid Waste District coordinator. Butler County’s program costs between $25,000 to $27,000.
“Part of the challenge is they are made up of a lot of components in them,” Fiehrer Flaig said of electronics. “They need human interaction; they’re hard to take a part. And they cannot be meaningfully recycled without being deconstructed.”
Electronics have a number of minerals - such as copper, gold and chromium - inside them. And, she said, depending on the age, computer monitors and televisions either have lead, cadmium or mercury.
Fiehrer Flaig said many chemicals and toxins have the potential to leach into the groundwater at a landfill.
The program operates from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the respective Saturdays at the Butler County Engineer’s Office, 1921 Fairgrove Ave.
Accepted items include televisions, hard drives, monitors, keyboards, printers, scanners, desktop copiers, fax machines, power cables, pagers, cell phones, digital equipment, software and compact discs.
However, there is a limit of five computer systems and two televisions per household. All electronic computer equipment will be processed by 2TRG at its Blue Ash facility.
In 2009, the electronics collection program processed more than 350,000 pounds of equipment.
“We want to provide practical convenient solutions for residents to manage these items thoughtfully,” Fiehrer Flaig.
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