If it must go, it should be disposed of properly [Video]

BATON ROUGE – Just because it’s spring cleaning, doesn’t mean it can all go in the trash.

The City-Parish will host its bi-annual Household Hazardous Materials Collection Day on Saturday, March 2. Improperly disposing of hazardous household materials — acids, bleach, TVs and electronics, batteries, fluorescent compact bulbs, thermometers, paint thinners, cooking oils, just to name a few — can detrimentally harm the environment, but it can harm even more those who are disposing of waste: waste management and city workers.

“Many of these materials could potentially cause a fire in a garbage truck,” Mark Armstrong, the City-Parish’s chief communications officer, said. “You can only imagine if you were to throw a propane tank into your garbage bin, that’s put into a garbage truck, that’s then compressed. You could have an explosion. You could have a fire. You could have an issue on your roadways as a result of that.”

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