Dispose Photo Voucher For Free

Color Darkroom Chemicals After you have collected enough, dispose of them properly by transporting them to the nearest hazardous waste disposal facilities to you. An alternative to disposing of chemicals used in your darkroom is to take them to a photo lab, if you can find one, and ask them to dispose of them.

After silver recovery, fixer can be disposed down the drain. If your local regulations allow, you may be able to dispose of small amounts of used fixer into the municipal sewer.

Developer, Stop and Hypo Clear Unused and spent photographic developers and negative plate processing chemicals are generally not considered hazardous. They are safe to pour down the drain, but only on a sewer system. Do so in small quantities in order to avoid chemical reactions.

Fixer contains high levels of silver and cannot go down the drain. Collect it in an airtight container and bring it to one of the hazardous waste collection sites listed below (eligible businesses only). You can also put fixer through a silver recovery process or contract with a hazardous waste disposal vendor.

Unused and spent photographic developers and negative plate processing chemicals are generally not considered hazardous. They are safe to pour down the drain, but only on a sewer system. Do so in small quantities in order to avoid chemical reactions.

A better option is to approach a local darkroom or photo lab. They should already have a system in place for the proper disposal of waste chemicals and may be willing to let you bring yours to them for safe disposal.

Lots of customers always ask me if they can throw away film (35mm 120/220, 8MM, 16MM, etc) in their trash bins at home or if there was a proper way to dispose of the film. You can just throw color film, black and white film in your trash bin at home.