(Washington, DC) The District Department of Public Works (DPW) will hold its bi-annual household hazardous waste drop-off and “E-cycling” event Saturday, October 23, from 9 am to 3 pm in the Carter Barron Amphitheatre parking lot at 16th and Kennedy Streets, NW. This service is free and open to all District residents.

DC residents can bring items including old cleaning and gardening chemicals, small quantities of gasoline, pesticides and poisons, acids, varnish, oil-based paints, solvents, aerosols, wood preservatives, spent batteries of all kinds, roofing tar, chemistry sets, automotive fluids, even asbestos tiles to the collection site for environmentally safe disposal or recycling. A professional hazardous waste contractor will remove materials from the residents’ vehicles. Following the event, a licensed hauler will take the waste to an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-approved facility for processing.

Once again, DPW will have an electronics recycler onsite. Residents may bring televisions and audio equipment, computers, computer parts and computer components for end-of-life disposal. All computer monitors and TV screens must be intact, not cracked, punctured or shattered. The E-cycling service is also offered at no charge.

Items that will not be accepted during this collection include munitions, audio speakers, explosives, bulk trash, wooden TV consoles, propane tanks, microwave ovens and other appliances, as well as radioactive or biologically active wastes.

For more information on household hazardous waste, call the Mayor’s Citywide Call Center at (202) 727-1000, or view the flyer for more details about the October event.