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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

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