Hazardous Waste Disposal at Tunney’s Pasture – Sept 15

As described in https://ottawa.ca/en/residents/garbage-and-recycling/hazardous-waste-and-special-items we have local waste depots twice this year, for disposing of paint, old electronics and other things too dangerous for regular garbage.

The depot runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Tunney’s Pasture. The last one this year is on Sunday, September 15, 2019.

Some of the odder and more dangerous things I’ve brought and the chemical experts at the depot had fun looking over – old gardening chemicals with Malathion (still used for West Nile mosquitoes), DDT and Chlordane.

Hazardous Waste Disposal at Tunney’s Pasture – May 5, Sept 15

The depot runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Tunney’s Pasture. Dates this year are:
Sunday, May 5, 2019
Sunday, September 15, 2019

Household Hazardous Waste Disposal – Tunney’s Pasture October 28th

As mentioned at http://ottawa.ca/en/garbage_recycle/special/hhw/index.html and in roadside signs on Scott Street, there will be a hazardous waste disposal day at Tunney’s pasture this Sunday. So if you missed the summer occasion, this is the opportunity to dispose of old paint, batteries (the cadmium in rechargeable Ni-Cd batteries is tremendously more toxic than the lead in car batteries, which is bad enough itself), things with mercury in them and other items that would best not be put in the general landfill. See the web page for a longer list of items or check the Waste Explorer database.

Sunday, October 28, 2012
150 Tunney’s Pasture Dr.
Tunney’s Pasture – Sir Frederick Banting Driveway
Residential electronic waste is also accepted at this site.
Depot hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.