Your life just got a little bit easier, especially if you like to do your part to recycle hazardous waste.

Very little of our over-all waste is actually recycled (24% in the US and about 8% world-wide), let alone specific things like lithium-ion batteries (less than 5% in the US).

Part of the problem is that city governments (and especially our backwards legislature) don’t fully fund a circular economy. I’ve covered this in the past.

Further, if you wanted to dispose of your waste properly, you had to take it on special days to a special site, usually nowhere near your home. You had to really want to do it and take up part of your day to make in happen -and that’s after you’ve sorted out exactly what you can recycle and how to store it for most of the year until you have time to go to one of their drop-off sites.

Well, the pandemic has been terrible for us, for sure. But one silver lining is that now the City of Phoenix has put together a system to pick up your hazardous waste from you. All you have to do is set up an appointment and set out your waste on that day in a safe, dry spot.

Have a look at this video that I made to see some tips on what to put aside for hazardous waste. Have a look at this City of Phoenix website for more information.