Household Hazardous Waste Disposal

Household hazardous waste can’t go in your trash or recycling—but it still needs to be disposed of safely.

What Is Considered Household Hazardous Waste?

Hazardous waste includes any product labeled with words like toxic, flammable, corrosive, or reactive. These items require special handling and should never be placed in your curbside bin.

Common Household Hazardous Waste includes:

Paint, solvents & varnishes
Automotive fluids (motor oil, antifreeze)
Household cleaners & disinfectants
Batteries (alkaline, lithium, car)
Fluorescent light bulbs & CFLs
Garden chemicals, pesticides, and herbicides

Never Dispose of Hazardous Waste in Your Cart

Putting Household Hazardous Waste in the trash or recycling cart is dangerous to workers, the environment, and local landfills.

✘ Please do not place the following in your garbage or recycling:

Paints, oils, gasoline
Rechargeable or lithium batteries
Pool chemicals or pesticides
Cleaning fluids or aerosols

When in doubt, don’t toss it—contact us for guidance.

How to Safely Dispose of Household Hazardous Waste

To safely dispose of your household hazardous waste, you have two options, depending on the item.

Some items can be taken to our transfer station locations while other items must be taken one of our annual Household Hazardous Waste collection events.

Visit a Transfer Station Near You

Both of our transfer stations accept batteries (lithium, alkaline, rechargeables), paint, motor oil, antifreeze, cooking oil and electronics.

Quantity restrictions apply, please call 541-336-2932 before you visit for details.

Find Transfer Station locations

Attend Annual Collection Event

For disposal of chemicals, pesticides and other hazardous materials, please bring them to our annual collection event. This event rotates around the County each year. For more information, please visit the County Solid Waste District website.

Important Reminders:

Keep products in original containers
Never mix chemicals
Secure all lids and store items upright during transport
No radioactive items (e.g. smoke detectors)
No containers larger than 5 gallons in capacity
No cylinders/barrels accepted
No sharps or other medications
No explosives: such as bullets, fireworks, flares/aerial flares
No Commercial/Business Materials without application and prearranged appointment (visit the County Solid Waste District website for more information).