Household hazardous waste has been gathering dust in Adams County homes, in some cases, for decades. Saturday, the city of Hastings is going to do something about it. The city will conduct a Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in the Adams County Fairgrounds parking lot. The event is the first collection day for hazardous waste in the Hastings area. The event is an amnesty day for residents storing chemicals in their homes, said Jack Newlun, Hastings Adams County Sanitary Landfill director.
Residents can drive through the drop-off site in the parking lot of the fairgrounds.
Trained personnel and volunteers will unload the chemicals, no questions asked. Many of the items to be accepted Saturday were banned from everyday disposal in the landfill in the early 1990s. Many times Newlun doesn't have an answer. There aren't too many options to dispose of household waste, Newlun said. Now, people either store it, dump it or put it in the landfill by hiding it among regular garbage.