ACCEPTABLE Household Hazardous Waste

• Adhesives 

• Aerosol cans 

• Antifreeze 

• Arts and craft paints 

• Asbestos (caulk / roofing tar / paint) 

• Asbestos tiles or shingles (MUST be 

  wetted and double bagged, plastic bags with 

  a MINIMUM thickness 10 mil) 

• Auto body filler 

• Auto related fluids 

• Automotive fluids and fuels 

• Batteries: nickel-cadmium, lithium-ion,

  lead-acid - Must have terminals taped

• Body putty 

• Brake fluid 

• Car and chrome polish 

• Car cleaners 

• Carburetor cleaner 

• Caulks 

• Cleaners 

• Cleaning products 

• Compact fluorescent light bulbs & tubes

• Coolant 

• Concrete sealant

• Craft & hobby chemicals 

• Diesel fuel 

• Dish soap 

• Drain cleaners 

• Driveway sealant 

• Engine degreaser 

• Epoxies 

• Fertilizers 

• Fluorescent tubes / bulbs 

• Freon in aerosol-type cans (R-11, R-34a) 

• Fuel and oil additives 

• Fuel injector cleaner 

• Fungicides 

• Garden chemicals 

• Gasoline 

• Glues 

• Grease and rust solvents

• Herbicides / herbicides lawn chemicals 

• Household batteries: nickel-cadmium, 

  nickel-metal hydride, lithium-ion, 

  lead-acid- Must have terminals taped

• Household cleaners 

• Insecticides

• Kerosene 

• Lacquers and stains 

• Lamp oil 

• Laundry detergent 

• Lawn and garden products 

• Light bulbs 

• Mercury (metallic liquid) 

• Mercury (solids) 

• Mercury thermostats 

• Mercury thermometers

• Mineral spirit 

• Naval jelly 

• Oil-based (alkyd) paints 

• Paint (oil-based) 

• Paint removers 

• Paint strippers 

• Peanut oil

 • Pesticides (residential-size 

  containers)

 • Photo processing chemicals 

• Pool chemicals and additives 

• Pool chlorine 

• Radiator fluids 

• Rechargeable batteries- Must have terminals taped 

• Resins, fiberglass and epoxy 

• Roach and ant killer 

• Rodent poisons 

• Roofing tar 

• Rubber cement 

• Rubber cement thinner 

• Shampoo 

• Skin lotions 

• Soil fumigants 

• Starter fluids 

• Tires (4 / vehicle) 

• Transmission fluid 

• Turpentine 

• Used cooking oil 

• Used oil 

• Used strippers and thinners 

• Used / unused motor oil 

• Varnishes and stains 

• Wallpaper remover

• Weed killers 

• Wood preservatives 

DO NOT BRING LATEX PAINT

Latex Paint is not hazardous and can safely be dried or absorbed and thrown in the trash.  Latex Paint will be able to be recycled into new paint in 2025 at no charge. These sites will also accept oil based and other paints.

For more information about Illinois Paint Recycling go to: www.paintcare.org/states/illinois/