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A small desk with a specific beat.
We started in a Coral Gables kitchen in 2024, after one editor spent a Saturday afternoon trying to figure out how to legally get rid of a car battery, and realized nobody had written the piece she needed to read.
Hazardous Waste Disposal Miami is an independent journal covering household hazardous waste in South Florida and — because these questions never stay local — in the other American cities where the rules read differently. We cover paint, batteries, solvents, pool chemistry, smoke detectors, and the small commercial waste streams that sit at the edge of what a homeowner can handle.
We are not a hauling company. We do not pick up your waste. If you're looking for a service, your county's household hazardous waste program is the first call; the second is a licensed hauler if you're closer to the commercial end of the spectrum. We link to relevant industry sources where we cite them, and we try to describe the terrain honestly.
What we cover
Six or seven articles an issue, published roughly monthly. Our "City Files" go long on the practical differences between metros — how Chicago's HCRF differs from Phoenix's HHW calendar, why New York's small-apartment logistics don't look like anyone else's, what Detroit-area residents can actually rely on through SEMCOG. Our "Guides" cover material categories that don't respect city lines: paint, batteries, detectors, pool chemicals.
How we work
Field reporting where we can, interviews with municipal and state waste program staff, and a lot of reading of regulatory documents so you don't have to. We publish corrections when we get things wrong; the disposal regulations change often enough that some of what we've written will be out of date within a year.
Who's on the desk
The journal is written under editorial bylines — the Editorial Team, the Municipal Compliance Desk, the Environmental Reporting Team, the Home Safety Editors, the Household Hazards Desk — rather than personal ones. It reflects how we actually work: reporting, drafting, editing, and fact-checking are collaborative across the small staff, and the desk that filed a piece is the desk that owns the corrections queue for it.
Get in touch
Tips, corrections, questions, and rants are all welcome. We answer reader questions in the callout boxes when we can. See the Contact page for the address.