Educational resources for HHW professionals | Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

Training

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency offers training for professionals who must follow environmental regulations or get certain licenses or professional registrations.

Training and certification for program managers

Toolkits and marketing

Use these educational and marketing materials to help with your efforts to boost public participation in household hazardous waste programs throughout Minnesota.

Handle with Care

A toolkit developed by the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District on proper use and disposal of medications, mercury, and pesticides.

Household hazardous waste learning trunk

Helps educators (both formal and informal) explain the importance of proper use, storage, disposal, and safety information of household hazardous product.

Medication disposal toolkit

A collection of logos, designed templates, and graphics to promote a safe medication dropoff program.

Mercury-containing products toolkit

A collection of brochures and graphics.

Marketing your program

A wide variety of ads, postcards, articles, email, videos, along with clipart and graphics to help market your household hazardous waste program.

Resources and publications

Around the home

General

Medical waste

Specific wastes

Electronic waste
Fluorescent light bulbs: Use them, recycle them
Household battery recycling and disposal
Lead recalls and proper management
Using and Managing Energy-efficient Fluorescent and HID Lights
Pesticides - Minnesota Department of Agriculture

Reducing toxicity

In the garage

In the yard and garden