Household Hazardous Waste Facility
Household Hazardous Waste Facility Description
In Minnesota, Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) programs collect, manage, and properly dispose of household generated hazardous wastes. Program operators are trained to ensure compliance with environmental and worker protection laws and regulations.
Anoka County currently has one centralized site, located in Blaine, for the collection of household hazardous waste. This site is very busy and can have long wait times. The current site is small so it has to carefully store and manage the high amount of HHW materials coming in. Anoka County does have a reciprocal use agreement (RUA) with surrounding metro area counties whereby Anoka County residents may take their HHW to other County facilities. These other locations are far away from the county borders. In order to increase the diversion of household hazardous waste from the waste stream, an additional HHW location is needed to better serve the residents of Anoka County.
The R&RS team is analyzing the best-case options for additional HHW disposal for County residents. The CIP budget for the HWW site will be used for initial site design, data analysis, research, real estate and consultant. When a 2nd centralized HHW facility is developed in Anoka County, all current design and operation best practices including factoring in capital cost, operating efficiency and safety will be considered.
Project Summary
1) Use Category - Other
2) Project Start Date - May 2020
3) Project End Date - May 2022
4) FTE Impact - Not Required
5) Required by statute - No
6) Comments - None
Five Year Spending Plan
Household Hazardous Waste Facility
3230 101st Avenue NE
Blaine MN 55449