Preventing Pollution Starts in Your Home

Household Pollutants May Not Be What You Think -What do restaurants, dentists, manufacturers, and your family have in common? Following the best management practices, you share a responsibility to prevent pollutants from entering your water before it leaves your home or office and enters the Subregional Water Reuse System. Water pollutants are not just limited to trash, but include many household materials. Take precautionary measures to ensure harmful chemicals, pharmaceuticals, mercury, and greases are not mixed in with water that eventually flows to rivers and the ocean. Restaurants use grease traps to prevent grease from entering sewer pipes. Dentists carefully dispose of mercury at approved sites, not letting mercury go down the drain or into the trash. Small businesses, depending on industry, often pretreat outgoing water to remove pollutants or contaminants added during industrial processes. Agilent Technologies, a premier measurement company, has a very sophisticated on-site pretreatment process that removes many metals from outgoing water.

Get Involved in Responsible Disposal – Think, Prevent, Preserve!
By disposing of polluting materials in a responsible way, you can make a difference to the quality of water that enters our waterways and is consumed by wildlife.

How do I responsibly dispose of these pollution sources?

Fats, Oils, Greases, and other Pollution Sources

Mercury

Pharmaceuticals