SEATTLE (Recycling Monster): A free community recycling event will be held in South Haven on Saturday.
The city works with the Van Buren Conservation District to hold the Recycle Roundup each year, and the district’s Kalli Marshall tells us they’ll take a wide variety of items to be disposed of safely by partnering vendors.
“We are going to be collecting household hazardous waste,” Marshall said. “So things like your old cleaners, pesticides, light bulbs, batteries, as well as Styrofoam, electronics, and tires.”
Marshall says last year’s event attracted around 250 vehicles. The drop offs are handled drive-thru style, so no one has to get out of the cars.
Marshall says the program is paid for with the conservation district millage and it helps protect the environment in Van Buren County.
“We’re really excited to hold this event because we really want to make sure we’re cleaning up our communities and safely disposing of these hazardous chemicals from getting in our water and all the ditches, keep the trash out of the ditches.”
Marshall says during last year’s recycling event, they collected 300 pounds of foam, 782 tires, just under 3,000 pounds of electronics, 3,360 pounds of hazardous waste, and 2,300 gallons of oil-based paint.
The Recycle Roundup will be this Saturday, August 1 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the South Haven Department of Public Works building at 1199 8th Avenue. It’s open to all Van Buren County residents.
During the event, the following items will be accepted:
Household hazardous waste, including cleaning products, batteries, antifreeze, solvents, aerosol cans, fluorescent bulbs, mercury and medications
Oil-based paint, paint thinners and aerosol paint
Electronics
Foam packaging
Passenger tires (with or without rims, limit of 10 tires per household)
Small quantities of lawn and garden chemicals
Sharps (needles, lancets and EpiPens)
U.S. flags, hearing aids, eyeglasses and canes
The following items will not be accepted:
Motor oil
Latex paint
Ammunition or explosives
Asbestos
Radioactive waste
55-gallon barrels
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