A hazardous waste collection event will take place Saturday, May 1 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Hickory American Legion Fairgrounds. The event is open to Catawba County residents only and is free of charge. Household cleaners such as drain openers, toilet bowl cleaners, oven cleaners, disinfectants, and pine cleaners. All types of paint products such as latex and oil-based paints, spray paints, solvents, thinners, shellacs, varnishes, wood preservatives, and sealers.
Automotive products such as lead-acid batteries, used motor oil, antifreeze, brake fluid, and auto starter fluid. Pesticides and insecticides such as poisons and aerosols. Electronics such as computer monitors and intact televisions, laptops, floppy drives, hard drives, ink/toner cartridges, modems, cell phones, answering machines, CD players, tape players, calculators, copiers, medications and prescription drugs.
The one-day event is sponsored by Catawba County Utilities and Engineering and is co-sponsored by the City of Hickory, Keep Catawba County Beautiful, Cooperative Extension Service, Catawba County Sheriff’s Office, and the NC State Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. For more information, please contact Catawba County Utilities and Engineering at (828) 465-8217 or visit www.catawbacountync.gov.
