Otsego County will be holding its annual Household Hazardous Waste Event for Small Businesses on Friday September 12th, 2104 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm at the Meadows Office Complex County Highway 33W next to the Otsego County Public Safety Building.

Businesses in Otsego County that defined as a “Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator” CESQG, by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, are eligible to bring hazardous materials to the collection day event.

A business that qualifies as a CESQG must not, in a calendar month:

  • Generate no more than 220 pounds of hazardous waste, and
  • Generate no more than 2.2 pounds of acute hazardous waste, and
  • Generate no more than 220 pounds of material from the cleanup of a spillage of acute hazardous waste

AND, at anytime:

  • Store no more than 2,200 pounds of hazardous waste, and
  • Store no more than 2.2 pounds of acute hazardous waste.

Small businesses that qualify as a CESQG’s will receive a subsidy of $50 for cost associated with collection from the County to assist with cost associated with collection. Registration is mandatory.

For more information and registration, call the Otsego County Planning Department at 607-547-4225 Monday through Friday 8 am – 4 pm through Labor Day and M-F 8am – 5 pm beginning September 2, 2014.

 

 

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