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A short manual for handling household chemicals, written by neighbors.
Hazardous Waste Disposal Orlando started as a shared Google Doc between three neighbors on the same block in Audubon Park. It became a blog when the doc kept getting forwarded around and we got tired of the same email thread. This is what it's about.
What this site is
A plain-English guide to household hazardous waste in Orlando, and — because the same questions come up everywhere — in a handful of other U.S. cities we cover regularly. We write about paint, batteries, smoke detectors, pool chemicals, motor oil, and everything else that shouldn't go in the curbside bin.
The goal is to save you the phone call. When someone asks us "what do I do with these paint cans," they don't want a list of eight websites — they want the answer. That's what we try to write.
What this site isn't
We don't operate a hauler. We don't dispose of waste. We don't take drop-offs. We're an editorial site, and everything we cover is based on public information from municipal programs, our own experience going through it, and reader questions.
When we mention a specific service provider in a post, it's because a reader asked or because the situation calls for a licensed hauler and we know one that operates in that city. We don't take payment for those mentions.
How we write
Every post is filed by a member of the editorial team. Where a post has been through a technical review — for anything involving state or federal regulations — the reviewer is credited in the byline. We try to keep the tone the same across all our writers: useful, plain, no scare tactics, no unnecessary jargon.
If you find an error, tell us and we'll fix it. If a municipal program has changed since we published something, we update the post rather than write a new one — the URL stays the same, but the "modified" date at the top will change.
Who's behind it
A small editorial team based in Orlando. We keep bylines to role-based names (Editorial Staff, Environmental Desk, Local Guide Team) because the specific writer varies from post to post and because most of what we publish goes through more than one set of eyes. If you have a question that needs a real name attached, the contact page has one.