With winter and the holiday season just around the corner, now more than ever, it’s important to make sure your home is a safe space. As more people – including children – enter your home, suddenly all those garages, basements, attics, and spare rooms filled with odds and ends can become a danger. While spring cleaning is behind us, learn about how you can keep your children safe from hazardous household products through better understanding, storage, and disposal and how NEDT can help. [Read more…]
When Is It Time to Dispose of Household Hazardous Waste?
Old products, obsolete electronics, and empty containers you can’t throw in the trash have a tendency to pile up in any household, especially when attics, basements, and garages make for plenty of “out of sight, out of mind” storage. However, with the hazards posed by these dangerous products, it’s important to know when to store and when to find a facility to dispose of your household hazardous waste. Here are the signs it’s time to act. [Read more…]
The Hazards of Aerosol Spray Cans
Products that come in aerosol spray cans are convenient, but most of us will think twice before throwing them in the trash. Why is that? Both the pressure and mixture inside aerosol cans (both the products and the propellants) can be hazardous, and special precautions need to be taken to render them safe for at-home disposal or transport to a residential hazardous waste collection center. Learn more about the hazards of aerosol spray cans and what you can do about them. [Read more…]
Household Hazardous Waste Disposal: Our NEDT Pick Up Service
Our goal with our Collection Centers is to make the disposal of household hazardous waste easy – but we understand that not everyone can make it to our locations. In the spirit of our motto that hazardous waste disposal shouldn’t be difficult, we also provide a pick up service where we can come to your home and save you the trip. But how does it work, and what should you expect? That’s what this blog is for! [Read more…]
What Makes Carpet Cleaner Toxic?
While everyone loves the feeling of a carpeted room, cleaning them can be a headache. If you’ve taken it on yourself to clean your carpet and rugs, you may be left with toxic carpet cleaner and other rug conditioning products that need disposal. Today we’re going to look at the harmful chemicals that might make your carpet cleaner toxic, as well as precautions to take during both use and disposal. [Read more…]
