Trash, Recycling and Hazardous Waste

Trash

• If a trash can is full, empty it. Do not leave it for someone else.
• Take trash to the dumpster area behind the building. Ask if you do not know where to go.

Food waste

Take food and food trash with you when you leave. Do not leave food waste in the trash cans overnight.

Rodents chew on wires, nest in power supplies and leave droppings behind. Food left in the shop invites them in. This applies everywhere, including the conference room after an event.

Aluminum can recycling

Drop aluminum cans in the can recycling bin near the lockers. All proceeds go to the makerspace and help fund tools, materials and workshops.

To be confirmed: whether other materials (cardboard, paper, plastic, scrap metal) are recycled, and where.

Hazardous waste

Paint, solvents, finishes, oils, batteries and similar materials must never go in the regular trash or down a drain.

• Oily and solvent-soaked rags can catch fire on their own as they dry. Never leave them balled up in a trash can.
• Lithium batteries can start fires if crushed or punctured. Keep them out of the trash.

To be confirmed: where members should put used rags, leftover paint and solvents, and dead batteries at WMI, and how the shop disposes of them.

See Fire Safety and Hot Work and Chemical Safety and Safety Data Sheets in Shop Safety.