Household Hazardous Waste


City of Rockford Hazardous Waste Site Directions

To navigate the facility, please enter on the Kishwaukee Street side only. Residents with household wastes shall follow the traffic cones to the left upon entering where a staff member will unload waste from vehicles. Residents with tires only may stay to the right upon entering and drive directly to the used tire shipping container. Residents are required to unload tires into the shipping container themselves. Upon unloading household waste and tires, residents must exit the facility onto Martin Road to return to Kishwaukee Street.


Address

3315 Kishwaukee Street

Rockford, IL 61109


Hours of Operation

Saturdays:  8:00am to 4:00pm

Sundays:    Noon to 4:00pm


Holidays Closed: New Year’s Day, Easter Sunday, Independence Day and Christmas.

Commercial Hazardous Waste


Listed below are companies who can assist with hazardous or medical waste generated by municipalities, businesses, commercial, and medical providers.


Illini Environmental

Phone: 618-746-1234


Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc.
Phone: 708-746-4040
www.cleanharbors.com


HWH Environmental
708-263-0756
www.hwhenvironmental.com


Heritage Environmental Services
630-739-1151
www.heritage-enviro.com


R3 Environmental Management
847-488-1492
www.r3environmental.net


SET Environmental, Inc.
847-537-9221
www.setenv.com


Stericycle Specialty Waste Solutions, Inc.
866-303-7344
www.stericycle.com


Veolia Environmental Services, Inc.

219-392-6700
www.veolianorthamerica.com


Click for more information on the City of Rockford's Collection Facility

ACCEPTABLE Household Hazardous Waste

• Adhesives 

• Aerosol cans 

• Antifreeze/ radiator fluids

• Arts and craft paints 

• Asbestos (caulk / roofing tar / paint) 

• Asbestos tiles or shingles (MUST be 

  wetted and double bagged, plastic bags with a MINIMUM thickness 10 mil) 

• Auto body filler 

• Auto related fluids 

• Automotive fluids and fuels 

• Batteries: all household batteries

• Body putty / Bondo

• Brake fluid 

• Car and chrome polish 

• Car cleaners 

• Carburetor cleaner 

• Caulks 

• Cleaners 

• Cleaning products 

• Compact fluorescent light bulbs & tubes

• Coolant 

• Concrete sealant

• Craft & hobby chemicals 

• Diesel fuel 

• Dish soap 

• Drain cleaners 

• Driveway sealant 

• Engine degreaser 

• Epoxies 

• Fertilizers 

• Freon in aerosol-type cans (R-11, R-34a) 

• Fuel and oil additives 

• Fuel injector cleaner 

• Fungicides 

• Garden chemicals 

• Gasoline 

• Glues 

• Grease and rust solvents

• Herbicides / herbicides lawn chemicals 

• Insecticides

• Kerosene 

• Lacquers and stains 

• Lamp oil 

• Laundry detergent 

• Lawn and garden products 

• Mercury (metallic liquid) 

• Mercury (solids) 

• Mercury thermostats 

• Mercury thermometers

• Mineral spirits 

• Naval jelly 

• Paint (oil-based) 

• Paint removers/ paint strippers 

• Peanut oil

 • Pesticides (residential-size 

  containers)

 • Photo processing chemicals 

• Pool chemicals and additives 

• Pool chlorine 

• Rechargeable batteries- Must have terminals taped 

• Resins, fiberglass and epoxy 

• Roach and ant killer 

• Rodent poisons 

• Roofing tar 

• Rubber cement 

• Rubber cement thinner 

• Shampoo 

• Skin lotions 

• Soil fumigants 

• Starter fluids 

• Tires (4/vehicle per day) 

• Transmission fluid 

• Turpentine 

• Used cooking oil 

• Used oil 

• Used strippers and thinners 

• Used / unused motor oil 

• Varnishes and stains 

• Wallpaper remover

• Weed killers 

• Wood preservatives 

DO NOT BRING LATEX PAINT

KNIB now recycles oil and latex paint. Learn more here.



For more information about Illinois Paint Recycling go to: www.paintcare.org/states/illinois/ 

UNACCEPTABLE Household Hazardous Waste

• Agricultural chemicals (farm-size 

  containers) 

• Aluminum cans & scrap - (recycle

  with KNIB) 

• BBQ & camp size propane 

• Business/commercial sector wastes 

• Cardboard- (recycle with KNIB)

• CO2 detectors 

• Compressed gas or liquid cylinders 

• Computers- (recycle with KNIB)

• Controlled substances

  (pharmaceuticals) 

• Electronics- (recycle with KNIB) 

• Explosives 

• Farm waste 

• Fire extinguishers (contact A-Fire Extinguisher)

• Fireworks 

• Food waste 

• Garbage 

• Institutional wastes (schools,

  churches, nursing homes)

• Latex paint 

• Medications 

• Metal scrap- (recycle with KNIB) 

• Paper- (recycle with KNIB) 

• Pharmaceuticals 

• Propane tanks (contact A-Fire Extinguisher)

• Radioactive materials 

• Sharps, needles and potentially

  infectious medical wastes

• Smoke detectors 

• Styrofoam 

• Tractor tires (>4 feet diameter) 

• Trailer tires (>4 feet diameter) 

• Trash

• Torch fuel canisters (contact A-Fire Extinguisher)

• Water-based paint


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