The Golden Triangle Solid Waste Management Authority and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality are sponsoring a Household Hazardous Waste Collection at at GTSWMA Landfill, located just west of Highway 45 Alternate on Old West Point Road.
Items will be collected for no cost at the landfill from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Saturday. Items can only be dropped off and pick-up services are not available.
GTSWMA Landfill accounting director Kathryn McTaggart said once the items are collected, they can be disposed of in the appropriate way.
Types of items that will be accepted include aerosols, batteries, paint, household cleaners, chlorine, wood finish, automobile fluids, herbicides, rodent poison, filters, pesticides, electronic waste and lighter fluid.
"All these items are hazardous waste, and hazardous waste cannot go into a landfill," McTaggart said. "It has to be taken to an appropriate collection facility for the type of hazardous waste, and so we do this day each year so the public can get rid of the hazardous waste they have around their house."
Explosives, infectious waste, munitions, radioactive waste, gas canisters or cylinders and Freon devices will not be accepted.
Only items from households will be accepted. Items from businesses or industries will not be accepted.