Group Home Page St. Tammany’s Third
Household Hazardous-Waste Collection Day
As with the previous two Collection Days, paint was the most prolific item turned in. Cans and drums; Drums and cans!

Another blockbuster!

After two hugely successful Household Hazardous-Waste Collection Days in 2006 and 2007 (see here and here for more), we jointly sponsored our third with the St. Tammany Department of Environmental Services on Saturday, March 15th, 2008.
Check out...
The Final Count
Our First Collection Day
Our Second One
More HHW Information
Click here for one on-line story from the Times Picayune and here for another -- and here for still more.

In some ways, this was the best yet. Keep Slidell Beautiful really stepped up with volunteers and especially helped with all the planning that's necessary for this to work.

Also contributing were the City of Slidell and Slidell Lion's Club, St. Tammany Parish Public Works, St. Luke's Men's Club, Pic Recycle, Alpha Phi Alpha, Keep Covington Beautiful, the Slidell City Council, Northshore High, Madisonville Jr. High, LDEQ, and DOW Chemical.

Scott Dye, Director of the Sierra Club's Water Sentinals, supplied the great t-shirts and some other supplies. (He found us via a Google News alert!) Thanks, Scott!
The prizes to the volunteers who came the farthest go to seven from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio (they heard about us through The Green Project) and two from the YMCA in Columbus, Ohio! Thanks guys!!

Community support is building!

This third Collection Day went even smoother than the last. One major reason was the growing number of organizations contributing to planning and the increase in volunteers.

Computers...

...and tires...
...and pie! Oh, my!!

Bill Mauser, Executive Director of Keep Slidell Beautiful, Therese Kwiecien of the Honey Island Group, and Slidell City Councilman Ray Canada
 More Happy Customers!

Locality
Vehicles		 Percent
of Total
Abita Springs30.7% 
Bush, Walheim81.9    
Covington Area368.4    
Lacombe204.7    
Madisonville51.2    
Mandeville358.2    
Pearl River214.9    
Slidell Area27965.3    
Outside St. Tammany61.4    
Unknown (no zip code)143.3    
Total427100.0%
Source: Honey Island Group exit survey
 Here are some preliminary counts!
* Please note these are very early numbers.
We'll be updating these continuously, so please check back!
Cell phones53Each
Used tires324Each
Paint23,000Pounds
Televisions4,783Pounds
Computers and other Electronics16,460Pounds
Ink Cartridges*Each
Batteries4,171Pounds
Ballasts17Pounds
Fluorescent Tubes330Pounds
Mercury Containing Devices11Pounds
Concentrated Inorganic Acids5Pounds
* Still counting; please check back!
Source: LEI and St. Tammany Parish Department of Environmental Services
Our three ring leaders -- Diane Casteel and Therese Kwiecien of the Honey Island Group, and Brett Henry, Environmental Specialist with the Parish Department of Environmental Services -- a little windblown and more than a little glad it's over!
Special hat-tips and MAJOR THANKS! to:

Photo credits: Bill Sussky; all ©Copyright 2008.
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Last updated: 4.15.2008