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In addition to household batteries and fluorescent lamps, and electronic waste, the following categories are also considered Universal Waste. Universal Waste, along with Household Hazardous Waste (HHW), can be taken to the HHW facility in Oakland every Thursday, Friday and Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 1 p/m. Be sure to bring valid ID showing a current Alameda County address.
Mercury-Added Novelties
Examples include greeting cards that play music when opened; athletic shoes (made before 1997) with flashing lights in soles; and mercury maze games.
Mercury Gauges
Some gauges, such as barometers, manometers, blood pressure, and vacuum gauges contain mercury.
Mercury Thermometers
Mercury thermometers typically contain about a half gram of mercury. Many health clinics, pharmacies and doctors offices have thermometer exchange programs that will give you a new mercury-free fever thermometer in exchange for your old one.
Non-Empty Aerosol Cans that Contain Hazardous Materials
Many products in aerosol cans are toxic. And many aerosol cans contain flammables, like butane, as propellants for products like paint. If your aerosol can is labeled with words like TOXIC or FLAMMABLE don’t put it in the trash unless it is completely empty.
Pilot Light Sensors
Mercury-containing switches are found in some gas appliances such as stoves, ovens, clothes dryers, water heaters, furnaces and space heaters.
Thermostats
There is mercury inside the sealed glass "tilt switch" of the old style thermostats (not the newer electronic kind).
