If you live in Tuscaloosa County, you’ll have the chance to safely dispose of common household hazardous materials this summer.

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The Agency of Natural Resources is running the program with a 10% surcharge after no producer group stepped up. Regulators ...

Have you ever wondered how to properly dispose of unwanted chemicals or electronic devices from your home? While Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) cannot accept household wastes, there are ...

Hazardous waste is waste that poses substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment and generally exhibits one or more of the these characteristics: ignitability, corrosivity, ...

The United States has thousands and thousands of sites marked for cleanup by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. At the top of this list are 1,333 on the Superfund National Priorities List, or ...

We all have them: The old can of paint tucked on a shelf in the basement. Or the used batteries piling up in a drawer. Or maybe some pesticides shoved in a corner of the shed in the backyard. These ...

The Hazardous Materials Department (EHS Support Facility) is responsible for the safe management of hazardous materials, universal waste, and radiological waste on campus and in certain parts of the ...

The following chemicals can be disposed of in the sanitary sewers (drains) as long as the treatment does not precede disposal. Treatment is defined as using a material to neutralize hazardous waste.

According to the EPA, a hazardous waste is either listed in one of the several lists prepared by the EPA, or, it exhibits one or more of the following characteristics: ignitable, reactive, corrosive, ...