Spring cleaning will take on new meaning with events scheduled by Warren County’s public works department for Saturday and May 3-5.

A household hazardous waste day will be from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot in front of Greenwood High School, giving Warren County residents an opportunity to dispose of bug and weed killers, solvents and corrosives, paint, batteries, televisions and computers at no cost.

Then, a waste tire drop-off event is scheduled for May 3-5 at the county’s Louisville Road salt barn at 999 Lauren Avery Drive. From 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. each of those three days, local residents can drop off scrap tires at no cost.

Hazardous waste day is one of two such events held each year in Warren County, thanks to funding from the state’s hazardous waste grant program. The other will be in the fall.

Stan Reagan, coordinator of Warren County’s environmental planning and assistance department, said a certified hazardous waste disposal team and other waste management professionals will be on-site. He said a shredding station will be available for recycling old paper documents, but binders and bulky metal clips must be removed in advance.

Tires, construction debris, trash, asbestos or anything containing radioactive isotopes will not be accepted at hazardous waste day, which is for Warren County residents only. For a complete list of acceptable items, visit this Warren County stormwater management website: http://www.warrencountyky.gov/household-hazardous-waste-day.

“A lot of this stuff gets recycled or converted to fuel,” Reagan said. “Some of it gets incinerated.”

While hazardous waste days are held every year, the May 3-5 waste tire disposal event is the first held in Warren County since 2015.

Reagan said the equivalent of 75,000 passenger tires were collected at the 2015 event, called a “tire amnesty” event because it allows residents to avoid fines and disposal fees for having illegal tires on their properties.

Service stations and trucking firms may bring their tires for recycling, Reagan said, but tire retailers, registered waste tire haulers and salvage yards are prohibited from participation under state guidelines.

Reagan said no tires will be accepted at the drop-off site in advance of the event or afterward. He said sites containing the equivalent of 1,500 tires or more may be scheduled for on-site pickup later. These sites must be reported, in advance of the collection event, to the county’s Division for Environmental Planning and Assistance or the Bowling Green field office for the Department for Environmental Protection.

Solid, foam- or calcium-filled and off-road tires, as well as those with a rim bead thicker than one inch, will not be accepted at this event.

The Warren County Regional Jail is providing manpower to assist in removing tires hauled to the collection event.

This is one of several waste tire drop-off events being held in the 10-county Barren River region, and Reagan said Warren County residents can take tires to one of the others if they miss the May 3-5 event. A list of waste tire drop-off events can be found at the Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection website at bit.ly/2qAKXB8.

For information about the hazardous waste day or the waste tire drop-off event, call the Warren County Division for Environmental Planning and Assistance at 270-843-5353.