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Household Hazardous Waste

Located at the City of Thunder Bay Solid Waste & Recycling Facility, the depot is open daily during regular landfill hours and only accepts special residential waste such as:
  • paint
  • insecticides
  • drain cleaner
  • spot remover
  • household batteries
  • spent fluorescent tubes
  • oven cleaner
  • used motor oil and oil filters (limit of two 5 gallon containers of used oil at any one time)
  • empty propane tanks, etc.
  • electronic waste (see our Electronic Waste webpage) 

If the product you wish to dispose of is marked DANGER or POISON, this indicates that it is toxic, corrosive or extremely flammable. WARNING or CAUTION indicates that the product is slightly toxic. Disposal of all of these products poses a threat to the environment if not handled correctly.

Please bring hazardous waste in the original container or label all products you bring to the depot. Never mix hazardous wastes.

Play it Safe with Hazardous Waste  Adobe PDF, 2 pages, 594 KB
 

Identifying Hazardous Products

Hazardous Household WasteIt isn’t always easy to identify products that are hazardous. Consumers often rely on product labels for information, and the label may not list all ingredients. The easiest way to determine if a product is potentially hazardous is if it bears any one of the following symbols or signal words such as Danger, Warning, Poison, Caution, Caustic, Irritant or Volatile. Products labelled Danger are the most hazardous and products labelled Caution are the least hazardous.

Hazardous Symbols 1
Hazardous Symbols 2

NOTE: Items labelled with these warnings pose a threat to the environment and to human and animal health. These warnings relate to acute or immediate health hazards that the products pose. They do not consider the possible long-term health hazards of exposure to the chemicals.

Under Stewardship Ontario's Orange Drop program, local retailers accept many hazardous waste items for proper disposal. Visit www.makethedrop.ca for a full list of locations or "Drop Zones" and what hazardous wastes they accept.

Think BUDS:
     Buy only what you need
     Use it all up
     Divert
     Safely dispose of the rest


More information:

  • EcoSuperior: 624-2140 (information on hazardous waste disposal and household alternatives)
  • See our Alternative products webpage for "recipes" for alternatives to commercial household cleaning products. There's less packaging, too!