RESIDENTS looking to offload hard-to-move chemical waste can take advantage of a clean out event at Fairy Meadow on Sunday.

The Household Chemical Clean Out – at the updated location of Fairy Meadow Surf Club car park – provides the opportunity for the safe removal of hazardous household chemicals that could pose environmental and public health risks if not disposed of properly.

The free Wollongong City Council service, accessible via the Fairy Meadow Surf Club car park, allows residents to drop off household quantities of:

• garden, pool and hobby chemicals
• household cleaners
• paint
• poisons
• batteries
• fluoro lights
• fire extinguishers
• gas bottles
• motor oils, fluids and fuels
• smoke detectors.

‘Household quantities’ are a maximum100L of paint, up to 10kg of household batteries and up to 20L or 20kg of other items.

Council reminds anyone looking to drop off chemical waste to take care in transporting it, to never mix different chemicals, ensure containers are clearly labelled and properly sealed, and where possible keep all chemicals in their original containers.

See Council’s website for more tips on what you can bring and how to carefully transport them.

If you are unable to make it on Sunday the above listed items – excluding garden, pool and hobby chemicals, household cleaners and poisons – can be dropped off at the Whytes Gully Community Recycling Centre, which is open every day of the year except Christmas.

Note: The location of Chemical Clean Out, 1 September 9am-3.30pm has been shifted (500m south) from North Dalton Park to Fairy Meadow Surf Club carpark. Please allow for some delays and follow signage and traffic control.

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