What are Hazardous Car Battery Corrosion Removal: Use Household Chemicals? baking soda and water. Chrome Polish: Use vinegar. Some jobs around the home may require the Copper Cleaner: Use paste of equal parts use of products containing hazardous vinegar, salt, and flour. Be sure to rinse chemicals. These products include: completely afterward to prevent corrosion.

air freshener hair color Drain Cleaner: Try a plunger first. Then all-purpose cleaner hair permanent pour mixture of 1 cup each of baking soda, aluminum cleaner hair spray salt, and white vinegar. Wait 15 minutes and ammonia herbicide anti-bacterial cleaner insecticide then flush with boiling water. antifreeze insect repellent Fertilizer: Use compost. bleach (chlorine) lye Safe Alternatives carpet cleaner mildew remover Furniture Polish: Use olive oil or almond detergent mothballs oil. Also, try 2 teaspoons of lemon oil and 1 drain cleaner nail polish remover Everyday activities, such as cleaning, car pint mineral oil in a spray bottle. dry cleaning fluid oven cleaner maintenance, lawn care, hobbies, and home dyes paint improvement projects, are often done using Garbage Disposal Deodorizer: Add lemon fertilizer paint & varnish remover toxic products. Many times, you can do these or lime peels or baking soda. flea and tick spray pool chemicals activities using non-toxic or less toxic floor cleaner septic tank cleaner Glass Cleaner: Mix equal amounts of water foggers shoe polish alternatives. Below is a list of common and vinegar in a spray bottle. Wipe with fuels vehicle products household products that may be hazardous, newspaper. furniture cleaner windshield wiper solution and some safer alternatives. glues & adhesives wood stains and finishes Floor Wax/Stripper: To remove old wax, Abrasive Cleaner: Rub the area with cut use club soda, scrub well, let soak, and wipe Each year, more than 150,000 calls to poison lemon dipped in borax, then rinse. clean. Polish with a clean, soft, dry cloth. centers involve pesticides and cleaners. Air Freshener/Deodorizer: Sprinkle baking Hand Cleaner (Paint/Grease): Use baby oil More than half of toxic pesticide exposures soda in odor producing areas or set vinegar or margarine, and then wash with soap and involve children five years old and younger. out in an open dish. Try an orange studded water. The most common toxic chemicals children with cloves, or cinnamon and cloves. are exposed to are pesticides, fuels (e.g., Linoleum Floor Cleaner: Use 1 cup white Ant Killer (house): Locate ant entry point lamp oil, lighter fluid), and cleaning products. vinegar plus 2 gallons water. and seal with caulk. Use traps instead of sprays. Kill visible ants with soapy water. Linoleum Floor Polish: Use skim milk. Discourage entry with chili powder. Mothballs: Place cedar near clothes or Ant Killer (yard): Drench mound with boiling store clothes in a cedar chest. water. If ants remain, use an insect growth regulator that causes sterility in the queen Mold/Mildew Cleaner: Mix water and and developing youth. vinegar in a spray bottle. Brass Polish: Use paste of equal parts Oven Cleaner: Scrub baked on grease and vinegar, salt, and flour or use Worcestershire spills with baking soda, salt, and water paste. sauce. Be sure to rinse completely afterward Roach Killer: Mix baking soda with to prevent corrosion. powdered sugar.

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Silver Cleaner: Rub gently with baking soda SAFE ALTERNATIVES and damp sponge. Place small objects in pot of water with a small piece of aluminum foil, FOR MORE and 1 teaspoon baking soda and 1 teaspoon to Common Household salt, and boil 2-3 minutes. Wash in soapy INFORMATION water and polish dry. Not for use on silver Chemicals jewelry, silver items with glued components, Chemical Hazards Program or flatware with hollow handles. Environmental Health Branch Spot Remover: Use club soda. For butter, Georgia Department of Public Health coffee, gravy, and chocolate stains, dab with a solution of 1 teaspoon white vinegar and 1 (404) 657-6534 quart cold water. For set stains, apply www.dph.ga.gov/chemical-hazards solution of equal parts ammonia and water. If an ammonia stain remains, blot a solution of table salt and water. Toilet Bowl Cleaner: Scrub with baking Sustainability Division soda or castile soap. Georgia Department of Natural

Resources Tub and Tile Cleaner: Use 1/4 cup white vinegar mixed with warm water. (404) 651-5120 or (800) 685-2443

Wall Cleaner: Mix 1/2 cup borax, 2 www.gasustainability.org teaspoons dishwashing liquid, and 1 gallon warm water. CHEMICAL HAZARDS PROGRAM Window Cleaner: Mix 3 tablespoons Keep Georgia Beautiful ammonia, 1 tablespoon of white vinegar, and Georgia Department 3/4 cup water in a spray bottle. Environmental Health Section of Community Affairs

www.dca.state.ga.us/environmental/kgb

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

www.epa.gov/epaoswer/ non-hw/muncpl/hhw.htm