Roswell residents can drop off household chemicals and other hard-to-trash items Saturday morning at a city-run collection event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What’s Happening: <\/strong>The city of Roswell is holding a Household Hazardous Waste Day on Saturday, May 9, from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Hembree Facility, 1810 Hembree Road in Alpharetta. The event is for items that cannot go in regular trash or recycling \u2014 things like old paint, cleaning chemicals, and batteries that can cause harm if thrown away the usual way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What’s Important: <\/strong>The city says the event is designed to keep dangerous materials out of local waterways and natural areas. More information is available at roswell365.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How This Affects Real People: <\/strong>Residents who have been holding onto old chemicals or paint cans have a two-and-a-half-hour window Saturday morning to get rid of them safely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Path Forward: <\/strong>When the city will hold its next collection event has not been announced. Residents can check roswell365.com for future dates.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Roswell residents can drop off household chemicals and other hard-to-trash items Saturday morning at a city-run collection event. What’s Happening: The city of Roswell is holding a Household Hazardous Waste Day on Saturday, May 9, from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Hembree Facility, 1810 Hembree Road in Alpharetta. The event is for items […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":252502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5790],"tags":[10953],"class_list":["post-252448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-hazardous-waste","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}