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Household Hazardous Waste

Household Hazardous Waste
Household Hazardous Waste
Drop-off your hazardous items for free year round. Help keep hazardous items out of the waste stream by taking your household hazardous waste to the Waste Management Facility's free drop-off site throughout the year to be recycled or safely disposed of. Reduce the amount of hazardous waste by purchasing only the amount needed or use non-toxic or less toxic products.

For more information, please call The City of Red Deer Blue Line at 403-340-BLUE (2583) or the Waste Management Facility at 403-314-9120.

Household hazardous waste items NOT accepted:

  • Commercial / Industrial hazardous waste
  • Prescription drugs

Accepted Household hazardous waste products:

  • Abrasive cleansers
  • Acetone
  • Aerosol paints/sprays
  • Air fresheners (aerosol)
  • All-purpose cleaners (solvent-based)
  • Ammonia
  • Ant/wasp spray
  • Antifreeze
  • Auto body filler
  • Batteries
  • Barbeque starters
  • Bleach
  • Brake and transmission fluid
  • Butane refills
  • Carbon tetrachloride
  • Car (lead-acid) batteries
  • Car waxes/polishes (solvent and water based)
  • Contact cement
  • Degreasers (petroleum based)
  • Disinfectants
  • Drain cleaners
  • Fabric softeners
  • Floor wax strippers
  • Fluorescent light bulbs
  • Fungicides
  • Furniture polishes/waxes
  • Gasoline
  • Glass cleaners
  • Glues (solvent and water based)
  • Hair colouring
  • Hair perm solutions
  • Hairsprays (aerosol)
  • Insecticides

 

·            Kerosene

·            Laundry starch

·            Laundry stain removers

·            Lighter fluid

·            Liquid cleansers

·            Lye

·            Mildew removers

·            Muriatic acid

·            Nail polish and remover

·            Oven cleaners

·            Paint thinners and strippers

·            Paints (oil and water based)

·            Photographic chemicals

·            Propane gas cylinders

·            Rubbing alcohol

·            Rug and upholstery cleaners (both water and solvent based)

·            Rust remover

·            Septic tank degreaser

·            Shoe polish

·            Silver and brass polish

·            Solvents, turpentine, varnish, lacquers

·            Spot removers

·            Spa and pool chemicals

·            Toilet cleaners

·            Tub and tile cleaners

·            Weed killers

·            Windshield washer solution

·            Wood preservatives

·            Products with flammable, corrosive, reactive/explosive, toxic/poisonous warning labels