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Braintree Residents Can Trash Electronics, Hazardous Materials Saturday

Braintree offers the days to allow residents and small businesses a proper method of disposing of material that has been banned from landfills because they represent a health/ safety issues to the environment.

This Saturday, Sept. 28, the town will host Household Hazardous Waste Day at the Recycling Center on Ivory Street, where Braintree residents can drop-off electronics, paint, motor oil, cleaning solvents and other products not safe for the landfill.

Residents can stop by between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. The cost is $10 per 10 gallons of liquids or 10 pounds of solids, cash only. Clean Harbors Corporation is sponsoring the event.

For more information visit http://goo.gl/Ip3yCe or call 781-794-8088.

Below is a list of what residents can bring:

*Portable TVs $15.00 - up to 24", Consoles & Portables over 24" $20 each
*Monitors - $15.
*ACs - $15
*Misc Electronics - charges vary
*Oil or enamel based paints
*Pesticides
*Bug sprays
*Rodent poisons
*Paint thinner
*Weed killers
*Concentrated fertilizers
*Partially filled aerosol cans

*Photo chemicals
*Antifreeze
*Kerosene
*Diesel oil
*Waste motor oil
*Automobile batteries
*Automobile tires (ok if on rims)
*Propane tanks
* Cleaning solvents
*Caustic cleaners

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WHAT NOT TO BRING:

*Latex paint
*Radioactive waste including radioactive type smoke detectors (batteries can be removed and the smoke detector can be thrown out in the regular trash)
*Explosives
*Gunpowder

*Ammunition
*PCB oils
*Bulk chemicals
*Oil in large drums
*Asbestos
*Medical/biological waste
* Flares

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Electronic equipment payments will be donated to the Friends of the Public Library, along with those for automobile and truck tires.


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