Schoharie County really cleaned up at its Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day.
“This is one of the best programs we put on and it saves a lot of stuff from being thrown away,” Fulton Supervisor Phil Skowfoe, who chairs the Solid Waste Committee, said Friday.
The July 27 Howes Cave event hauled away nearly twice as much waste–everything from paint to pesticides–as last year’s, he said.
According to the report filed with DEC, the county collected:
• 220 gallons of antifreeze.
• 2,749 pounds of pesticides (solids).
• 42 pounds of mercury-containing devices.
• 373 pounds of fluorescent bulbs.
• 958 pounds of household hazardous waste (solids).
• 4,950 of hazardous paint.
• 126 pounds of hazardous household batteries.
• 495 gallons of pesticides (liquids.)
• 3,395 pounds of other household hazardous waste (liquids).
The disposal cost, including contractor fees, totaled $30,517.80.