Everyone should have a hobby, and the world is filled without countless ones, especially those to create amazing works of art, engineering, and entertainment. However, many of these hobbies make use of niche products and chemicals that can be hazardous, especially when it comes to disposal. If you’ve got hobbyist chemicals at home, either as waste from a hobby or the remains of a previous passion, it’s time to deal with them to make your current hobbies—and home—safer.
Examples of Hobbyist Chemicals
While hobbies come in all shapes and sizes, here are a few examples of hazardous household products you might have:
- Woodworking Stains and Finishes: Into woodworking or restoring furniture? Wood stains, furniture polish, and other related products like paint thinner need proper disposal.
- Manufacturing Adhesives & Resins: From arts and crafts to commercial-grade adhesives, do your at-home project product products that can’t be thrown in the trash?
- Automotive Oil & Waste Fluid: From restoring cars to just changing the oil at home, dealing with used motor oil and other automotive fluids is a must.
- At-Home Photography Chemicals: The various developing chemicals used in at-home photography, especially silver halides that are found in fixer and washing baths.
Not sure if your hobby’s products are hazardous? Check out our commonly accepted hazardous household products!
Other Specialty Home Chemicals
Of course, hobbies aren’t the only things at home that produce specialty chemicals that need proper disposal once they are used or no longer needed. While owning a pool might not be a hobby in of itself, keeping it regulated with pool chemicals can sure feel as time-consuming. Likewise, you might get specialized heavy-duty cleaners for specific at-home projects, but those chemicals can be dangerous to keep around, especially products like muriatic acid.
Disposal of Hazardous Chemicals
When it comes to disposal, many of these hobbyist chemicals and other specialty products cannot be disposed of at home or in the garbage since they pose a hazard when compacted in garbage trucks or handled by personnel at recycling centers and for treatment plants when poured down the drain.
Thankfully, disposal options are available to you, including our NEDT Collection Centers! We accept many kinds of chemicals and also offer additional information on your disposal options with our Fact Sheets! Make more of your trip to one of our locations by bringing in any other household hazardous waste (such as old eWaste like CRT monitors) when you drop off, or learn more about our pick-up options. Because household hazardous waste shouldn’t be difficult.
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