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VOL. 33 NO. 5 www.seabreezepublications.com MAY 2022

Solid Waste Authority Bill’s Box

Household Hazardous Waste Tip
Bill will

Rechargeable Batteries • 80,120 pounds of lead acid batteries return in the
• 20,777 pounds of mixed batteries
Can Cause Fires If Put In • 15,702 pounds of lithium-ion batteries June issue.
Recycling Bins Or Trash Learn more about how to properly dispose of batteries
with the following resources:
• Watch the SWA’s lithium-ion battery commercial
Throwing rechargeable (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRlmKTBZES0).
batteries into a recycling bin • Check out the SWA’s video about the dangers of
or the garbage can put property putting combustible items in your trash (https://www.
and people’s lives at risk. In youtube.com/watch?v=VWsfEABhEs0).
fact, fires traced to lithium-ion • Review the Florida Department of Environmental
batteries have been reported at Protection’s Homeowner’s Guide To Battery Recycling
recycling facilities nationwide, And Disposal (https://floridadep.gov/sites/default/files/
and fires have started in the Battery-Fact-Sheet_09Dec15.pdf).
garbage trucks that go to your Remember, pollution prevention starts at home. A full
home. list of household hazardous wastes can be found at SWA.
Rechargeable batteries power our cell phones, laptops, org/HCRC or call (561) 697-2700 or (866) SWA-INFO
cordless power tools and even hoverboards. These (toll-free) to learn more about the Solid Waste Authority
batteries have components that are flammable. If the of Palm Beach County’s Home Chemical and Recycling
battery is shorted or damaged, it heats up and produces Centers.
oxygen, which facilitates combustion. The Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County is a
Fortunately, Palm Beach County residents can dispose dependent special district that was created by the Florida
of rechargeable (non-alkaline) batteries for free at any of Legislature in 1975. Since then, the SWA has developed
the SWA’s seven Home Chemical and Recycling Centers. an award-winning integrated solid waste management
Regular alkaline batteries (AA, AAA, C, D and 9 system to handle the county’s waste and recyclables. We
volt) can be placed in your garbage. But any other type call ourselves AWAY: whether you throw it, recycle it or
of battery (rechargeable, nickel-cadmium, automotive, flush it AWAY, we put your waste to work. Each year, we:
lithium-ion, cell phone, lead-acid) should be dropped at • Process more than 100,000 tons of recyclables.
one of the SWA’s Home Chemical and Recycling Centers. • Combust approximately 1.8 million tons of trash to
One of SWA’s locations is: generate electricity at renewable energy facilities.
Jupiter • Produce enough electricity to power approximately
North County Transfer Station 74,000 homes, about the number of homes in Boca Raton
14185 N. Military Trail (SWA Road) in Jupiter and Palm Beach Gardens.
Monday through Friday: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. • Recycle more than 150,000 tons of wastewater
Saturday: 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. treatment residuals (sludge from flushes) into
Other locations can be found on our website at www. environmentally-friendly fertilizer.
swa.org. • Safely dispose of more than 4.9 million pounds of
In addition to these locations, many major retailers will home hazards.
recycle batteries for free, and have drop-off containers • Collect water off of the
placed near the front of their stores. roofs of Renewable Energy
Commercial quantities of batteries may require special Facility 2 and store it in a
disposal. Call (561) 687-1100 for details on recycling 2-million-gallon cistern,
batteries from your business. which is used as part of the
In the last fiscal year at the SWA’s Home Chemical and energy making process.
Recycling Centers, Palm Beach County residents recycled:

REPORT SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY IMMEDIATELY

TO THE JUPITER POLICE DEPARTMENT
(561) 799-4445

Use 911 for emergencies only. Lock car doors.
Do not leave valuables in the car.