Missoula Household Hazardous Waste Collection
Missoula Water Quality District
Missoula City-County Health Dept
Stats
Getting the word out
- Average Car Counts ~ 1200 per year
- Average Oil-based paint per year ~50 barrels
- Average Special Waste per year ~ 16 barrels
- Avg disposal costs = $25,000
- Total Oil-based since 1992 = 56, 925 gal
- Total Special-waste since 1992 - 18,480 gal
- Utility billing
- ValPak
- Facebook (with partners)
- Radio (Non-profit)
- TV
- Newspaper
- Sandwich boards
- Reader boards
- Community Calendars
- Press Release
What other Montana communities are doing?
Expenses
Keepin it clean
since 1992
Sponsors and Supporters
- Flathead County – monthly
- Billings – Continuous collection (Yellowstone, Carbon, Musselshell, Treasure and Stillwater counties)
- Gallatin Co – monthly
- Contracted Services – $30,000
- Staff - $30,000
- Public Education and advertising - $10,000
- Supplies, tools, printing, etc… - $3300
- Missoula Valley Water Quality District
- Missoula Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Republic Services
- Tri State Oil Reclaimers
- Missoula Fire Department
- University of Montana Chemistry and Environmental Studies Classes
Waste Collected
Year round options
Funding 2014
- 2,960 pounds pesticides/poisons
- 2,805 gallons paint, flammable liquids
- 2,300 gallons waste oil
- 700 gallons antifreeze
- 3 cubic yards aerosol cans
- 3200 lf of fluorescent tubes
- 5 gallon - mercury
- Pharmaceuticals
- Waste oil/antifreeze/gasoline
- Mercury (Thermometers/thermostats)
- DEQ Collection Buckets and TRC
- Good latex paint
- CFLs
- Electronics
- disposal guide
http://www.co.missoula.mt.us/wq/HHW/Disposal/DisposalGuide.htm#Disposal_Options
Waste Disposal -
Low-hanging fruit
- Water Quality District – $36,000
- Allied Waste - $25,000
- Missoula Wastewater Treatment - $8,000
- Fees and donations- $4,000
- Donations - $300
- Total - $73,300 + in kind
- High-volume, low toxicity (has value!)
- Industry-sponsored collection
- Thermostats
- CFL
- Rechargeable batteries/portable electronics
- DEQ mercury bucket (841-5251)
- Dept of Ag annual collection
- Dept of Justice Operation Take Back
- Dry it out
Pesticides/ poisons – incineration
Flammable liquids – fuel blending/incineration
Waste Oil – recycled as fuel
Antifreeze – recycling
Mercury – DEQ
Reactives – Hazardous waste landfill