POMONA — Rockland residents can drop off household hazardous waste free of charge at the Rockland Green facility at 65 Firemens Memorial Drive in Pomona, with weekday service Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and a posted slate of weekend drop-off dates for 2026, per the 2026 Household Hazardous Waste Facility brochure and weekend schedule Rockland Green has published for the year.
Weekend events run 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Fire Training Center site and are listed on both the Rockland Green events page and the county's official calendar. The 2026 lineup includes Sunday drop-offs later in the summer — the county calendar lists an August 2 date — which matters for the spring and early-summer window, when garage cleanouts turn up last year's half-cans of solvents and stale gasoline. Residents who cannot wait for a weekend date can use the weekday service instead; the facility is closed on holidays.
What does this mean for residents? Anything on the hazardous list — oil-based paint, pool chemicals, drain cleaner, pesticides, automotive fluids, rechargeable batteries — should not go in the regular trash or down the drain. Electronics are accepted at no charge at the facility during operating hours, so old monitors and TVs from an attic cleanout have a legal, free exit route. Call (845) 364-2444 with questions about specific items.
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Rockland Green, the county's solid waste management authority, also runs complementary programs through the year, including paper shredding events and collections for unused medications and SHARPS needles, all listed on its 2026 resident events calendar.
For context, proper disposal is not just tidiness — household chemicals that leak from trash trucks or seep into the ground complicate stormwater and groundwater quality across the county's watershed, which is why Hudson Valley municipalities have moved these programs from annual one-day events to recurring service. The weekday schedule makes it practical: a Rockland homeowner with a trunk full of old paint cans can be in and out of the Pomona facility on a lunch break rather than hoarding cans until the next weekend event. The full brochure, including what is accepted and how to transport it, is available through Rockland Green's website, and weekend dates are also posted on the county's calendar.