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RIVER PARISHES—Following a three-year hiatus due to COVID-19 and Hurricane Ida, St. Charles and St. John the Baptist Parish industries will host the annual Household Hazardous Materials Collection Day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 22.  St. James Parish, Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and Louisiana

 

Department of Agriculture & Forestry are also supporting the event.  The goal of this event is to provide

 

households an opportunity to properly dispose or recycle materials that are inappropriate for curbside pickup.

 

Event coordinators for industries sponsoring the event include Jason Bradford with Marathon Petroleum

Company, who also serves as treasurer of the River Region Environmental Association, Lynette Currier with

 

OxyChem – Taft, Renee Toups with Shell – Norco, Alsie Dunbar with Bayer and Lexie Vance with Diamond

 

Green Diesel.

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As she encourages each year, Lynette Currier said, “Please mark your calendar and plan to attend this

 

annual event!  We have two locations:  one in St. Charles Parish at a new location – the West Bank Bridge Park

 

in Luling and at the New Wine Ministries parking lot in LaPlace.  We urge everyone to take advantage of this

 

opportunity.  Please clean out hazardous materials from your garage, utility room or shed and properly dispose of

 

these wastes on April 22^nd at one of these two available sites.”

 

 

The collection locations are in St. John the Baptist Parish at the Plaza LaPlace Shopping Center at 1921

 

Airline Highway in LaPlace, known as the New Wine Ministries parking lot and in St. Charles in Luling at the

 

West Bank Bridge Park, located at. 13825 River Road.

 

 

April 22^nd is a busy day in the River Parishes as it is the St. Charles Parish Trash Bash, the St. John the

 

Baptist Parish Clean Sweep, and the Sheriff’s Department fishing tournament.  This week also marks Earth Day

 

and we hope all the environmental focus helps our parishes remain clean.

 

 

With support from Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, this event is sponsored by the

 

following 25 local companies as a community service:  Air Liquide, Air Products (multiple locations in three

parishes), Arkema, Atalco, Bayer, Bunge, Cornerstone Chemical Company, Denka Performance Elastomer,

 

Diamond Green Diesel, Dow, DuPont, Evonik Corporation (two locations in St. John the Baptist Parish),

 

Grace, Linde, MPLX, Marathon Petroleum Company, Nalco Water – an Ecolab Company, Nucor, OxyChem,

 

Pinnacle Polymers, Shell – Norco, and Valero – St. Charles.  In addition to these sponsor companies, River

 

Region Environmental Association, a 501(c ) 3 organization is serving as the fiscal agent for this annual event.

 

 

Jason Bradford explained, “We are looking forward to collecting household hazardous materials from our

 

community again this year.  Please visit the event website (https://www.hhmcd.com) for event details.”

 

He continued, “At the most recent Household Hazardous Materials Collection event, we collected 17.25 tons of

 

potentially harmful materials and prepared them for recycling, recovery, treatment or disposal.”

 

The following household hazardous materials will be accepted and properly disposed of or recycled:  oil-

 

based paint, solvents, tires (limit five per vehicle and one delivery only), automotive and other rechargeable

 

batteries, household cleaning products, acids/bases, used oil, antifreeze, aerosol cans, fluorescent lamps,

 

pesticides, herbicides, scrap metal, major appliances and used electronics, such as used computers, copiers,

 

printers, radios, TVs and other electronic devices.  We cannot accept explosives, ammunition, infectious medical

 

wastes, unidentifiable materials, compressed gas cylinders (including propane tanks), radioactive wastes (smoke

 

alarms), asbestos, latex paint, high school lab wastes or commercial/governmental facility waste, including in-

 

home business waste.  There is a limit of five tires per vehicle.  Storm and construction debris cannot be accepted.

 

Please visit one of the two event sites on Saturday, April 22.  If you have any questions or would like

 

additional information, please send an email to the Household Hazardous Materials Collection Day hotline at

 

hotline@hhmcd.com.