On Saturday, September 26, at 22nd & York Streets, the Philadelphia Dept. Of Streets will hold its fifth-ever Household Hazardous Drop-off Day which, if you know Philadelphia at all, should scare the living hell out of you. Other names we’ve come up for this valiant effort by the City include “Bring Your Dirty Bomb To Work Day” and “Glow Worm Swap Meet.” But on the plus side, it’s like the one day of ever where you can actually get rid of whatever it is in your basement that is Definitely Giving You Cancer As We Speak. Have you got stuff that’s labelled… TOXIC? FLAMMABLE? CORROSIVE? REACTIVE? The City wants it. And they’ll get it. Back in April, on the first This Is What Michael Vick’s Soul Looks Like Day, 700 cars came to the collection site, and residents safely disposed of 30,000 pounds of hazardous materials and 15,000 pounds of computers. So that’s nice. But my God. It seriously is the most frightening thing ever.

This entry was posted on Friday, September 4th, 2009 at 12:10 pm.