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# Household Hazardous Waste Drop-Off Is Saturday: What to Bring, What to Leave Home
- URL: https://www.brookfieldcurrent.com/household-hazardous-waste-november-7/
- Published: 2026-11-06T13:16:41.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-06T13:16:41.000Z
- Description: The Housatonic Resources Recovery Authority runs a household hazardous waste collection Saturday, November 7, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Brookfield High School.
- Author: The Brookfield Current
- Tags: Events

Saturday is the day to clear out the garage shelf and the basement cabinet. The Housatonic Resources Recovery Authority holds a household hazardous waste collection on Saturday, November 7, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Brookfield High School, 45 Long Meadow Hill Road. The event is open to residents of the region's seven member towns: Bethel, Bridgewater, Brookfield, Danbury, Kent, New Fairfield, and New Milford.

Bring old paints, stains, and varnishes, pesticides and herbicides, pool chemicals, polishes, lighter fluid, transmission fluid, waste fuels, and one-pound propane cylinders. These are the kinds of household materials that do not belong in regular trash or down a drain, and the collection is the safe way to get rid of them.

Leave the big propane tanks at home. Twenty-pound propane tanks are not accepted, and neither are explosives, medical waste, controlled substances, or radioactive material. Keep materials in their original containers where possible, and sort them before loading the car so the drop-off goes quickly.

The morning should be mostly dry for the trip. Saturday starts mostly sunny, with a chance of rain showers arriving between 1 and 4 p.m., so the earlier hours of the collection are the best window.

The authority also notes two other Brookfield services. Food scraps smart bins are now available in town, and the Yard Refuse Disposal Center is open Saturdays only, April 11 through December 5, closed November 28, with a free permit required.