Household Hazardous Waste Depot

The collection depot is open to residents and businesses** in the following district towns: Brattleboro, Brookline, Dover, Dummerston, Guilford, Halifax, Jamaica, Marlboro, Newfane, Putney, Readsboro, Somerset, Stratton, Townshend, Vernon, Wardsboro, Westminster, and Wilmington.

**Businesses, schools, and institutions generating less than 220 pounds of hazardous waste per month can participate but must register in advance. Please go to this page to register.

This is your chance to clean out your attics, basements, garages, closets, and cabinets of nasty chemicals, solvents, cleaners, and other products that should not be thrown away in your regular trash. No access sticker is required for HHW drop-offs.

Do not get in the scale line. Please look to the left as you enter, by the clothes bins, and an employee will come to your vehicle and help unload. We appreciate cash or check payment at the time of drop-off. There will be a minimum $15 charge per 3-gallon total. If you bring over 3 gallons (excluding paints/stains/polyurethanes), we will need to charge you accordingly.

What is Household Hazardous Waste?

Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) can be identified by keywords on the container label: “danger,” “warning,” “caution,” “flammable,” “caustic,” “poison,” and “skull and crossbones.” The container may also indicate the health or environmental hazard of the product by using the following terms: “flammable,” “combustible,” “poison,” “caustic,” and “irritant.”
Not all household cleaners are hazardous and can be thrown out in your regular trash. Read the labels! Non-toxic products, eco-green cleaners, and biodegradable cleaners are trash.

The following materials are banned from the landfill and must be brought to our Hazardous Waste Collection Depot. (Empty containers of hazardous materials are trash and should be disposed of properly, but never recycled.)

• Acetone
• Acids (hydrochloric, muriatic, etc.)
• Adhesives
• Aerosol cans, acrylic & auto paints (spray paint, rubber undercoating)
• Ammonia
• Antifreeze
• Bleach (cleaners containing bleach)
• Brake fluid
• Car wax & polishes
• Chemistry sets
• Cleaners/spot removers
• Diesel fuel
• Drain & toilet cleaners
• Driveway sealer
• Fertilizer (chemical)
• Flares
• Fuel additives
• Gasoline (old, contaminated, unused, mixed)
• Hand sanitizer
• Heating oil & sludge (please make an appointment for large quantities)
• Herbicides
• Insecticides
• Kerosene
• Mercury products (elemental)
• Mothballs
• Motor Oil-Clean (used or unused)—$1 per gallon
• Motor Oil -Contaminated-(dirt, water, antifreeze, unknowns- in any size containers) – $10 per gallon
• Paint thinners & strippers- (turpentine, mineral spirits, “Gamsol”)
• Pesticides
• Pool & spa chemicals
• Roofing tar (if dried up, it would be trash)
• Solvents
• Transmission fluid (& other automotive fluids)
• Unknowns—please call or make an appointment for unknown chemicals
• Weed & grass killer

When in doubt, read the label.  If it says “caustic,” “flammable,” “corrosive,” “danger,” “hazardous,” or “poison,” or has the skull and crossbones symbol, it’s hazardous!