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CESQG Business Services

To use our services, a business must be a Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator (CESQG). We accept small quantities of the same materials from businesses that we do from residents. The cost to your business is the same amount that we incur from our Hazardous Waste Collectors.  

Please bring your materials to the south door by the railroad tracks and we will help you unload. ​We accept cash, check, credit card, or we can invoice you for your convenience.  

Non-profits: Items are charged half the price.

 

• Antifreeze and coolant, small quantities - FREE
• Antifreeze and coolant, large quantities - $0.73/pound
• Ballasts, non PCB - FREE
• Ballasts, PCB - District $0.75/pound
• Bare TV Tubes - $0.50/pound (this is the TV tube without the casing)
• Batteries, all types - $0.50/pound
• Broken fluorescent tubes - $1.48/pound
• CFL's - $0.50 each (municipalities/nonprofits half price)
• Circular and U tube - $0.60 (half price municipalities/nonprofits)
• Corrosive acids - $1.45/pound
• Electronic equipment - $0.20/pound (half price municipalities/nonprofits)
• Elemental mercury - $6.50/pound
• Flammables - $1.22/pound
• Fluorescent tubes - $0.06/foot (municipalities/non profits half price)
• Gasoline - $0.50/pound
• HID lamps - $0.95 each
• Latex paints, usable -  FREE
• Latex paints, unusable -  $0.52/pound
• Mercury compounds - District cost
• Mercury switches - $4.35/pound
• Motor Oil  - FREE
• Oil base paints, usable - FREE
• Oil base paints, unusable -  $0.90/pound
• Oil filters - $0.45 each or $0.50/pound.  Small numbers may be placed in filter bin outside south wall of building for FREE
• Oxidizers and Bases - $1.25/pound
• Poisons, liquid - $1.60/pound
• Poisons, solid - $1.60/pound
• TV's and Monitors - $0.20/pound
• UV tubes -$1.00 each

Water based products are nonhazardous and can go into the trash. Latex paints need to be solidified with oil dry, saw dust, sand, or kitty litter before discarding in trash.​

For on-site hazardous waste disposal, please contact an environmental waste company such as:​

• Action Environmental (260) 471-1168
• Heritage Environmental (317) 328-4892
• Safety Kleen (574) 289-4510

Green tip fluorescent bulbs still contain mercury and should be recycled as hazardous waste.

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