In all my years, I have never dealt with getting rid of hazardous waste--and of course, the hazards have grown exponentially since I was a young adult! Everything seems to be a hazard these days. Anyway, I went through the appropriate process:
1. Call someplace up North and ask for my waste to be picked up
2. wait 3 weeks for the packaging in which I put the waste to arrive from said Northern city
3. the box which the lady said would hold 10 paint cans turned out to be a heavy plastic bag
4. Unfolded said bag and read 3 pages of instructions on how and how not to dispose of my items
5. Labeled with enclosed labels any can or carton that didn't have a label on it so they would know what was in it (if there is no label, I don't know either!)
6. Fill bag up with appropriately approved hazardous waste
7. Realize I can not possibly lift the bag to take it up the hill
8. Unpack some things so I can lift it into a wagon
9. Pull wagon up the hill and then use the "dump" feature of said wagon to dump bag at top of drive
10. Put old electronics outside the bag, beside the bag making sure that all cords were with them and that only one computer was there, and that other electronics did not weigh more than 25 pounds.
My word! I may carry my hazardous waste with me for the rest of my life to skip having to go through that again!
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