Chemical waste tour

Each year HappyJMA-Wageningen organises a chemical waste tour along the student buildings in Wageningen, together with the municipality.

With a chemical waste van we visit all the student buildings and collect chemical waste. A lot of chemical waste boxes had disappeared from the corridors, so in 2008 we decided to distribute new boxes. We also designed stickers with important information (in Dutch and English) to put on all of the boxes.

Schedule of the tour in 2010:

List of everything you have to put in the chemical waste box:

Household

• Batteries

• Energy-efficient bulbs

• Fluorescent tubes

• Liquid drain opener

• Lamp oil

• Petroleum

• Pesticides/insecticides

Medicine chest

• Medicines

• Mercury thermometers

• Hypodermic needles

Transport

• Car batteries

• Petrol, gasoline

• Engine oil/spent oil/brake fluid

• Oil filters

Do it yourself (DIY)

• Paints, lacquer, stains and wood

  preservatives

• Products used with paints, e.g. white

  spirit, thinner, paint stripper, paint

  thinner, brush cleaners, brush softeners

  and cleaning spirit

• Mercury switches

Hobby

• Photo fixer

• Photo developer

• Etching fluids, e.g. nitric acid and

  sulphuric acid

• Hydrochloric acid