Safe Handling of Pesticides

Whether you have a small herb garden on your apartment balcony, raised beds in your front yard, or a spacious backyard garden, you may have ...

Planning 2016: 10 tasks for a healthier new year

  Dispose of household hazardous products safely and for free by taking them to HazoHouse . Switch to green cleaning methods by using vineg...

Healthy Holiday Cleaning The holidays can mean having a lot of people over to the house which means a lot of cleaning. But instead of reachi...

All drains lead somewhere...

When something goes down a drain, it may seem like it disappears, but it doesn’t. All drains lead somewhere.  There is no such thing as goin...

5 Tips for Painting Projects

Springtime has a way of motivating many of us to tackle those home improvement projects. Like the fresh new flowers of spring, a fresh coat ...

HazoHouse is now open daily

HazoHouse is now open daily from 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. The hazardous waste collection site, located at the Thurston County Waste and Recovery ...

Winter Storms - Be prepared

In Thurston County, we aren’t strangers to winter storms. Days of heavy rainfall, power outages, and strong winds are all too familiar to ma...

8 Tips to Prevent Accidental Poisoning in Children

The Washington Poison Center reported 54,390 instances of human poisoning in 2013. About 51% of these were children under the age of six. ...

Spring Cleaning Part 2: Tips for Sheds, Garages, & Barns

  As rain gives way to sunshine and warmer temperatures, outdoor projects move from the “planning phase” to the “doing phase.” Many outdoor...

Spring Cleaning Part 1: Spring into Green Cleaning!

By Elisa Kaufmann, Education & Outreach Specialist If I had the time, I would clean my entire house from top to bottom every week. Sadl...