How to get rid of

[ApatheticNoMore]

Maybe this thread could be a theme. Ok here's my question: what would people do with old cleaning products. Oddly like maybe half the things I end up getting rid of I never even bought these. Thrift shop? Trash? (don't say that! Just filling up the landfills ... :~))

[lessisbest]

Maybe this thread could be a theme. Ok here's my question: what would people do with old cleaning products. Oddly like maybe half the things I end up getting rid of I never even bought these. Thrift shop? Trash? (don't say that! Just filling up the landfills ... :~))

The city where I live has a Household Hazardous Waste Facility where you can take "toxic" items for recycling or disposal. They blend leftover paint, so you can get free cans of paint. Cleaning products, yard and garden products, car care, paint, used motor oil, transmission fluid, brake fluid, gasoline, etc., are sorted and either set aside for someone who can use them, or disposed of properly. This is also where we take batteries (of all kinds) and florescent bulbs.

The city also provides a list of places where you can recycle other things, or get services like Freon removal from appliances. They list all the thrift stores and what they accept, scrap metal businesses, tires, yard waste, chemicals/solvents/cleaners..... The local "mission" is also included because they will take men's clothing, toiletries, kitchen items for the people who stay there.

There are also

[Float On]

Our transfer station has a corner where you can set stuff like that, anyone is welcome to take something if they need it or after awhile the transfer station properly disposes it. The recycle center has Hazardous Waste days twice a year or they have a list of where those items can be taken.

[catherine]

I agree with less and float… check with your township/city and find out what do to with them. Our township has the same type of system--you drop off all hazardous stuff on certain days.

[SteveinMN]

We have the same kind of hazardous-waste collection here, except that I don't believe I've ever seen "take-it-if-you-want-it" areas at the satellite collection sites (maybe at the central site). They'll take any cleaning product and recycle what they can (unfrozen paint, etc.).

There also is a Web site run by the company with the recycling contract that offers a list of just about anything every made and how to recycle it (even if it's not through them). Generally running the phrase how to recycle <item> through your favorite Web search engine will tell you what your options are.

[zeaxmays]

i use mine up and recycle the containers.

[Gardenarian]

Homeless shelters are often in need of cleaning products.

[PastTense]

Old cleaning products would seem to be in the category of something you might well use in the future. So why not keep them?

[19Sandy]

Throw away in the trash.