- Abrasive Cleaners
- Acids
- Adhesives and Polishes
- Aerosols
- Air Freshener
- Ammonia
- Ant Poison
- Antifreeze
- Arsenic brake fluid
- Batteries (please apply tape to the positive and negative terminals of all lithium batteries)
- Bug sprays, pesticides
- Butane cylinders
- Car batteries
- Chlorine bleach disinfectants
- Drain cleaners
- Driveway sealers
- Engine coolant
- Fertilizer
- Fire starter
- Floor polish
- Fungicides
- Furniture polish
- Gasoline
- Glues/cements
- Hand sanitizer
- Herbicides
- Household cleaners
- Insecticides
- Kerosene
- Lawn care products
- Lighter fluid
- Medicines
- Metal polish
- Motor oil and empty motor oil containers (limit of 20 L per vehicle, per event day)
- Nail polish
- Needles
- Oil filters
- Oven cleaner
- Paint (empty, rust-free metal paint cans and lids can be put out for recycling)
- Paint cleaners
- Pharmaceuticals (can also be returned to your local pharmacy)
- Poisons
- Polishes
- Pool chemicals
- Pressurized tanks including barbecue tanks are limited to 20-litre size (must have legible labelling for acceptance)
- Propane tanks
- Rat poison
- Rug cleaner
- Rust paint
- Shellac
- Silver polish
- Solvents
- Spot removers
- Stains
- Syringes, needles, and sharps (properly contained in a rigid walled container with lid)
- Transmission fluid
- Turpentine
- Unbroken household fluorescent light tubes (limit of 10 per household, do not tape them together)
- Weed killer
- Window cleaner
- Wood preservative
- Wood stripper
Battery disposal
Drop off used batteries (single-use and rechargeable) at a battery recycling location in your area or bring them to an upcoming Household Hazardous Waste Event at Mohawk Street Landfill Site (20 Morrison Rd.) for recycling.
To view a list of additional battery recycling locations in your area, visit rpra.ca.
Fluorescent and compact fluorescent tubes
You can bring fluorescent tubes (including compact fluorescent bulbs) in a cardboard box or wrap them in newspaper. Do not tape tubes and/or bulbs together. There is a limit of 10 tubes/bulbs per vehicle, per event day.
Ballasts are accepted but must be removed from the fluorescent fixtures.
