NEW FOR BUSINESSES!!
Ever wonder what your business should do with fluorescent light bulbs? Extra chemicals? Paint?
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CESQG - Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator Business Services

To use our services, a business must be a Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator. We accept small quantities of the same materials from businesses that we do from residents.  However, there are a few more charges.  The cost to your business is the same amount that we incur from our Hazardous Waste Collectors.  We accept cash, check, credit card or we can bill you for your convenience.  Please bring your materials to the south door by the railroad tracks and we will help you unload your materials.

• TV's and electronic equipment - $.20/pound
• TVs and electronic equipment from municipalities/non profits - $.10/pound
• Bare TV Tubes - $.50/pound (this is the TV tube without the casing)
• Fluorescent tubes - $.06/foot (municipalities/non profits half price)
• CFL's - $.50 each (municipalities/nonprofits half price)
• Broken fluorescent tubes - $1.48/pound
• Circular and U tube - $.60 (half price municipalities/nonprofits)
• HID lamps - $.95 each 
• Ballasts - non PCB - FREE
• Ballasts - PCB - District cost
• UV tubes -$1.00 each
• Mercury compounds - District cost
• Elemental mercury - $6.50/pound
• Mercury switches - $4.35/pound
• Batteries, all types - FREE
• Motor Oil  - FREE
• Oil Filters - $.45 each or $.50/pound.  Small numbers may be placed in filter bin outside south wall of building for FREE
• Antifreeze and coolant, small quantities - FREE
• Antifreeze and coolant, large quantities - $.73/pound
• Corrosive acids - $1.45/pound
• Flammables - $1.22/pound
• Gasoline - $.50/pound
• Oxidizers and Bases - $1.25/pound
• Poisons, liquid - $1.60/pound
• Poisons, solid - $1.60/pound
• Oil base and latex paints, good condition - FREE
• Oil bases paints, unusable -  $.90/pound
• Latex paints, unusable -  $.52/pound

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

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

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

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

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