The Nov. 7 household hazardous waste drop-off is full. Here's where some of it can still go.

Registration is required and every slot is taken. County recycling centers take paint, batteries, electronics and motor oil, some for a fee.

FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Every slot for the Nov. 7 Household Hazardous Waste event is filled, according to the event's sign-up page, checked Nov. 4. The page lists eight half-hour windows from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., 890 slots in all, and says, "This sign up is full and has no more available slots." The county says pre-registration is required for participation (county news release, Oct. 14), so anyone without a slot should plan on another option.

Registration opened Oct. 19. At the Board of Commissioners work session the next day, staff said the event was already 85% full (meeting video, 10:29).

If you have a slot

When and where: Saturday, Nov. 7, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Freedom Park Campus Lot, 2435 Freedom Parkway, Cumming (Keep Forsyth County Beautiful). The sign-up page calls this a new location.
Limits: Forsyth County residents and residential waste only, with a limit of 10 gallons of paint per vehicle (Keep Forsyth County Beautiful).
Not accepted: medical waste, needles, ammunition, explosives, pharmaceuticals and non-hazardous items (county news release).
Cost: no charge, with a suggested $5 donation to Keep Forsyth County Beautiful (county news release).
If you can't go: the sign-up page has a link to change a sign-up. Neither the sign-up page nor the county's release describes a waiting list. Questions go to KFCB@forsythco.com or (770) 205-4573 (county news release).

If you don't

The county's three recycling convenience centers are for Forsyth County residents and are open 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday. They are closed Sundays and county holidays, including Nov. 11 and Nov. 26-27. The county's page says the centers only accept cash. They are at 351 Tolbert Street in Cumming, 3678 Old Atlanta Road in Suwanee and 3560 Settingdown Road in Cumming.

The centers do not take hazardous materials in general, but they do take some of what the event would have. All of this comes from the county's center page:

Paint and stains: liquid or dried, latex or oil-based, in original containers with no leaking cans. Fees run from $1 to $15, depending on the type and size.
Electronics: Tolbert Street only. Televisions are $12 each, with no wood console or rear projection sets. Other electronics are $2 per item or $5 unlimited.
Batteries and automotive: rechargeable, alkaline and lead acid batteries, used motor oil free of gas, water and other chemicals, used oil filters and antifreeze.
Small propane canisters: empty non-refillable cylinders only.

Other items have other routes:

Liquid cleaners, pesticides and fertilizers: the centers don't take them as liquids. The county says to absorb them into a material such as kitty litter or rags and dry them completely before bagging them as trash (county's center page). Keep Forsyth County Beautiful posts step-by-step instructions, which call for a different container for gasoline and other corrosive chemicals. Read them before starting.
Medication: Keep Forsyth County Beautiful says it can be taken to the North or South Precinct of the Sheriff's Office (same page).
Light bulbs and batteries: the same page says Batteries Plus stores accept them, and that a fee may apply.

When the next one is

Keep Forsyth County Beautiful holds the event twice a year. Its page does not list a date after Nov. 7.

At the Oct. 20 work session, a commissioner asked about adding another event. Staff said the biggest issue is cost, about $63,000 per event (video, 11:02 and 12:39). Staff also said a study of the Tolbert Street site would look at whether to set up a year-round facility for these materials, and added, "I don't know that we're there yet" (video, 11:10).

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