(Seguin) — There reportedly was no lack of hazardous waste lingering around homes in the city of Seguin.
At least that’s the final report by city officials following the city’s first-ever hazardous waste collection day. In fact, on Saturday, March 8, the city was forced to end the collection effort early.
Jennifer Sourdellia, the public information officer for the city of Seguin, says it wasn’t even noon and already the city had maxed out on the number of items it could collect.
“I would say it was a huge success, and it was very well attended. We collected quite a lot of materials over the time that we had that was open. In fact, we almost collected 31,000 pounds of hazardous waste so all that hazardous waste won’t go out into our landfill which is awesome,” said Sourdellia.
Sourdellia says despite having to cut things short, the city is pleased with the overall success of this event.
“We actually had a grant and because of this grant, we did have a limitation on how much we could collect so we were really surprised, I think, that we collected so much but we were happy that we were able to collect it,” said Sourdellia.
Sourdellia says the great response by the community only motivates the city to potentially host the event again in the future.
“And the turnout that we had at our event, definitely shows that this is something that is needed again in the future and hopefully, we can get another grant and make this happen for Seguin,” said Sourdellia.
Items for the hazardous waste collection day were collected in the Seguin Coliseum parking lot. Items that were collected included such things as herbicides, pesticides, paints, gasoline, bleach, automotive filters and fluids and/or drain cleaner.