The Charles County Commissioners announce that the final household hazardous waste collection day for 2009 will be on Saturday, December 5 from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the Charles County Sanitary Landfill on Billingsley Road East between Piney Church Road and Route 5.
Items accepted free of charge include pesticides, herbicides, fertilizer, gasoline, motor oil, antifreeze, paint, cleaning supplies, pool chemicals, batteries, expired prescription drugs, and other poisons that are around your house. Please keep the materials in their original containers whenever possible, and bring them to the collection site in cardboard boxes to ease unloading.
Household hazardous waste collection will resume in April 2010 at the County Landfill.
For more information, please call the Charles County Department of Public Facilities at (301) 932-3599 or the landfill information service at (301) 932-5656.