You keep it until the next hazardous waste collection day, then put it in your car to bring there. Spend half an hour waiting in a big line of cars, get up to where they take it and get yelled at for wasting their time on such a small amount of hazardous waste
Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years
SpawnStorm@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Genuine question, how do you dispose of these properly?
We have limited electronic recycling options that I’ve found. When I brought my old detectors in, they sent me away. I suppose I could break down the plastic vs the circuit components and recycle the plastic.
What do you all do?
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Soggy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
What do I do? Landfill. Nobody near me wants the ABS housing even if I pried out the electronics and the radioactivity of ionization alarms is too low to need hazardous waste disposal. There are so many more impactful things to care about than recycling two or three smoke detectors every ten years.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Your city should have a solid / chemical waste collection point.
kofe@lemmy.world 2 days ago
See if you have a local household hazardous waste recycling program. If not, check with the fire department if they’ll take em
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 days ago
I put thing like this in a box labelled “I don’t know to recycle this”, then I put that box in the corner of the least-used room in the house, where I won’t see it often.
bigboismith@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Exactly, that is a “next of kin” kinda problem
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Along with many empty medication bottles.