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Household Hazardous Waste Clean-up Days in Your Area

As the saying goes “If it goes on the ground it goes in the Sound” or your drinking water or favorite swimming hole. We can all find household hazardous waste in our garage or basement and even under the kitchen sink. How we dispose of these products is important to the places we live and all of our health. Chemicals leaching from landfills begin from when you toss hazardous products in the trash. Likewise, material dumped into storm drains or behind a fence trickle in the ground water or head down to the Sound. The array of chemicals finding their way into the water we use and drink and the air we breathe is staggering. We are not completely sure of what all of the impacts on us and our kids, pets or the animals we depend on, but we know it isn’t good. We’re conducting a giant chemistry experiment on our life support system.

If a product packaging has any of these words on the label, then the product has ingredients that contain one or more of the following hazardous characteristics: corrosive, reactive, toxic, flammable, or explosive. If not safely stored, used, or disposed, those items can present hazards to you and your environment.

Below find information on household hazardous waste clean-up days in Connecticut and Westchester and other information on disposal of toxic materials.

E-Waste: There is bad stuff in computers and other eletronics including; monitors, cell phones, printers, and digital cameras. These products should not be disposed of in the trash strem but recycled.

STAPLES the world’s largest office supply retailer offers to take back computers for a $10.00 fee at its 1400 locations nationwide. Recently Staples expanded its recycling program to accept certain other electronic products at no cost.

HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE CLEAN-UP DAYS LINKS.

Connecticut:

http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?a=2718&q=325448&depNav_GID=1646

& for unwanted electronic devices such as cell phones or tablets:

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/splash/electronicdevicerecycling.jsp

Westchester:

http://www.westchestergov.com/events_4289.htm

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Updates

Harbor Health Study 2022

Harbor Health Study-2022_FINAL It’s that time of year again, the publication of the ENb – contributed annual Harbor Health Study, a collaborative effort to collect data on the ecosystem health of local empayments.  An important document used to gauge the health 7 harbors in the Western Long Island Sound. View the 2022 Harbor Health Study […]

Nearly 3,000 Vessel and Island Pumpouts Completed during 2022!

ENB directed tens of thousands of gallons of sewage from vessel and island waste tanks to sewage treatments plants during 2022.  Our fleet of boats covering the north shore of the Western Long Island Sound were busy all season thanks to the requests from boaters to responsibly dispose of on board waste.  The whole Long […]

Over 2,000 Vessel Pumpouts Completed Already this Season!

ENB has completed over 2,000 waste tank pumpouts on vessels in the western Sound so far this 2022 season, ensuring thousands of gallons of sewage is kept out to the marine environment.  Thank you boaters for using our mobile pumpout service for your waste tank needs along the north shore of the western Sound, from […]

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