Sentences with phrase «hazardous waste day»

Set aside last year's half - full gasoline can to take it your town's hazardous waste day when that rolls around.

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A multi-pronged legislative package passed in honor of Earth Day aims to make New York State more environmentally friendly by banning the use of dangerous chemicals, setting clearer policies for disposing of hazardous waste and protecting New York's wetlands.

The hearing came the same day as the E.P.A. proposed adding the Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics plant — identified by the state as the source of the PFOA — to the federal Superfund list, reserved for the nation's worst hazardous waste sites.

CANTON — The Development Authority of the North Country with its regional county partners and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, is sponsoring a free household hazardous waste collection day Saturday in St. Lawrence County to help residents properly dispose of certain hazardous materials.

The State Assembly, led by Democrats, passed a package of one house bills for Earth Day, including requiring private drinking wells to be tested before fracking occurs, and to classify fracking wastewater as hazardous waste.

Erie County will hold a free household hazardous waste drop - off day from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 5, at Erie Community College's North Campus in Amherst.

For Earth Day, we organized a special public service in a city park and developed a handout that encouraged sustainable behaviors and helped people locate places to recycle and drop off household hazardous waste.

• Take and understand orders for sweeping streets and gutter in assigned areas • Ascertain that street cleaning equipment and motorized vehicles are in good shape prior to each shift • Fill water tanks at the beginning of each shit and ensure that they are refilled rom fire hydrants as and when needed • Drive sweeping vehicle to clean streets of debris, trash and other contaminants • Operate controls to activate rotary brushes and water sprays • Store collected waste in the vehicle's rear and transport it to designated dump areas • Empty waste in dump areas, maintaining awareness of any hazardous materials • Perform preventative and general maintenance on sweeping vehicles and also keep it fueled • Handle minor repair functions such as removing and replacing conveyors and repair tensioners and belts • Create and maintain logs of jobs for each day and ensure that they are submitted to the supervisor on a weekly / daily basis