Ocean County Household Hazardous Waste Collection Program
 Ocean County has offered residents a free household hazardous waste collection program allowing you to rid your home of items that cannot be placed at the curb for your daily trash collection. In recent years, with the implementation of year-round programs like paint management; we have seen a decline in the number of residents accessing our household hazardous waste program. Following a thorough review of this program’s use coupled with budgetary constraints, a decision was made to put the program on hold for 2010.
Many of the items brought to the household hazardous waste program can be handled through existing programs at either your local recycling center or at the county’s regional recycling centers. Both county recycling centers - the Ocean County Northern Recycling Center in Lakewood and the Ocean County Southern Recycling Center in Stafford Township - accept used paint in addition to a host of other items including waste oil, oil filters, antifreeze, rechargeable batteries, button batteries, car and boat batteries, computers and computer parts, fluorescent light bulbs and cell phones.
The Paint Management Program also can be accessed at municipal recycling centers in Toms River, Brick Township, Lacey Township, Berkeley Township, Little Egg Harbor Township, Tuckerton, Point Pleasant Beach and at the Seaside Park Public Works Department garage. The flyer on the back of this letter includes additional information on this program. Contact your local municipal recycling center for information on programs available to you.
If you need to contact a private hazardous waste company, the Ocean County Department of Solid Waste Management can provide a telephone number and contact. The company will charge a fee for this service.
We have always encouraged residents to buy only the amount of household products that you need to use. The empty containers can be disposed of with the trash. Ocean County takes great pride in its environment and in the success of its recycling programs. It’s important however that during these rapidly changing financial times that we review each program to determine it’s use and economic feasibility. If you need additional information, please call 1-800-55 RECYCLE or visit us on the web at www.co.ocean.nj.us and click on the Solid Waste Department.
 Click here to view a bar graph (PDF format) that displays the amount of materials collected and costs for this program since its inception in 1989.
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