The City of Weyburn will be holding their annual hazardous waste collection day on Saturday, May 28, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The city is encouraging residents to bring in anything that would be too hazardous to dispose of in the landfill, with the one-day collection depot set up at the Public Works roundhouse, beside the Fire Hall on 16th Street. SARCAN depot will also be open for this day, only to accept paint and electronics, at 1800 Ebel Road.
The list of what can be brought is quite extensive, and includes the following:
• adhesives, such as glue or caulking;
• aerosols, including hair spray or bug spray;
• automotive items, such as batteries, antifreeze, windshield cleaner, car wax and so on;
• batteries, including cell phone batteries, Ni-Cad, lithium, car-truck batteries, dry-cell, alkali or lead-acid batteries;
• cleaners for the household or for glass;
• fuels of all types, including gasoline, diesel, kerosene, lamp oil, oil-gas mixtures;
• mercury from thermometers, thermostats or fluorescent lights;
• oxidizers, such as chlorine, bleach, fertilizer, peroxide, septic tank chemicals;
• poisons, such as lawn herbicides, rodent poisons and weed killer;
• pharmaceuticals, including old prescriptions, but no sharp or biological wastes;
• propane cylinders, including for barbecues or camping cylinders;
• solvents, including paint thinner, acetone, varsol, alcohol or benzene.
Residents are not to bring waste products covered under existing stewardship programs like paint or electronics recycling, biological, infectious or radioactive waste, or explosives or ammunition.
