Unacceptable Construction Demolition Landfill Items

Construction Demolition Contacts

If you have any questions regarding construction demolition landfills, please contact staff in the Department of Environmental Quality office.

NamePhone Number
General Contact

(307) 777-7937


Alphabetical Listing of Unacceptable Construction & Demolition Items

  • Aerosol cans containing any product
  • Adhesives
  • Automobiles
  • Automotive cleaners, solvents, waxes
  • Batteries (alkaline or rechargeable, Ni-Cd, lithium, metal hydride)
  • Caulk
  • Containers with liquids
  • Creosote (liquid; or creosote treated wood)
  • Dead animals
  • Driveway sealants
  • Drums and containers containing waste
  • Epoxies
  • Electronic wastes
  • Exit signs (lighted, from building interiors)
  • Friable asbestos
  • Fuel tanks
  • Garbage
  • Glues
  • Hazardous wastes (listed or characteristic)
  • Industrial wastes
  • Lacquer thinners
  • Lead
  • Lead acid batteries
  • Lead based paint, flashing or solder
  • Liquids of any type or quantity
  • Medical infectious wastes
  • Mercury containing devices (switches, bulbs, thermostats, etc.)
  • Mercury based paints
  • Metallic pigments in unused paint containing: arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury or zinc
  • Municipal solid waste
  • Oils, greases, or contaminated petroleum
  • Paints
  • Polychlorinated biphenyls in ballasts, transformers, and capacitors
  • Petroleum contaminated soils
  • Pentachlorophenol
  • Pesticides
  • Petroleum constituents, leachable from roofing tars
  • Petroleum storage tanks (unless properly decommissioned and certified clean)
  • Polyurethane
  • Putrescible wastes
  • Resins
  • Roofing cement / sealers
  • Sealers
  • Septage
  • Sludge’s
  • Smoke detectors
  • Solvents
  • Stains
  • Thermostats and thermometers (containing mercury)
  • Transformers
  • Treated wood (pressure treated, creosote, chromate copper arsenate (green treated woods); pentachlorophenol (brown treated wood), copper naphthenate, ammoniacal copper zinc arsenate (ACZA), ammoniacal copper quaternary compound (ACQ)