Sydneysiders can dispose of their unwanted chemicals at the City of Sydney’s free household cleanout day this week. 

The upcoming chemical cleanout day will be held on Saturday 15 July from 9am until 3pm at the Sydney Park Depot, Barwon Park Road, St Peters.

As a joint initiative of the City and the NSW Environmental Protection Authority, the event seeks to help Sydneysiders to easily remove any leftover chemicals from their home without harming the environment or local waterways.

“The City has a long-term objective of zero waste to landfill. The annual chemical cleanout brings us closer to that target while ensuring chemicals such as mercury, cadmium and lead don’t end up in our waterways,” Lord Mayor Clover Moore said.
According to the Lord Mayor, collected chemicals will be sorted into more than 40 categories for re-use or recycling. Items such as unwanted paints can be used as an alternative fuel in cement kilns, and residual gas can be recovered from gas bottles for industrial use.

Items including solvents and household cleaners, paints and thinners, pesticides and herbicides, poisons, aerosols, pool chemicals, motor oils, fuels and fluids, acids and alkalis, and car batteries will be accepted. 

Also, household batteries, hobby chemicals such as photographic chemicals, gas bottles, fire extinguishers, fluorescent lamps, light globes, smoke alarms, and cosmetics and skincare can be dropped off.

However, items such as computers, mobile phones, cameras and other electronic goods should be reserved for the City’s next e-waste drop-off day.

For more information about the chemical cleanout day, visit 
cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/live/waste-and-recycling/e-waste-and-chemicals/chemical-drop-off-day.