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♻️ Find Your Local STOP / HHW Drop-Off on Long Island

Household hazardous waste (HHW) and STOP programs are run by your Town — not by villages. If you live in a village, you use your parent town’s STOP program.

🔎 Step 1: Choose where you live

🏠 If you live in a Town

Click your town below to see dates, locations, and accepted materials:

Find Your Town’s STOP Program

Nassau County

Town of Hempstead
https://hempsteadny.gov/231/Stop-Throwing-Out-Pollutants-STOP

Town of North Hempstead
https://www.northhempsteadny.gov/departments/solid_waste_management

Town of Oyster Bay
https://oysterbaytown.com/departments/environmental-resources/recycling/

Suffolk County

Town of Babylon
https://www.townofbabylonny.gov/754/STOP-Collection-Days

Town of Brookhaven
https://www.brookhavenny.gov/407/Hazardous-Waste-Disposal

Town of Huntington
https://www.huntingtonny.gov/STOP

Town of Islip
https://islipny.gov/stop-program

Town of Smithtown
https://www.smithtownny.gov/353/Household-Hazardous-Waste

Town of Riverhead
https://www.townofriverheadny.gov/188/Sanitation

Town of Shelter Island
https://www.shelterislandtown.gov/247/Recycling-Transfer-Station

Town of Southold
https://southoldtownny.gov/149/Hazardous-Waste

Town of East Hampton
https://www.ehamptonny.gov/681/STOP-DAY

Town of Southampton
https://www.southamptontownny.gov/574/STOP-Program

👉 Tip: Some towns have one-day events, others have year-round facilities.

🏘️ If you live in a Village

Villages do not run their own STOP programs.
Use your parent town below:

Nassau County Villages → Parent Town

• Hempstead villages (e.g. Freeport, Garden City, Valley Stream, Rockville Centre)
  → Town of Hempstead

• North Hempstead villages (e.g. Great Neck, Roslyn, Port Washington North)
  → Town of North Hempstead

• Oyster Bay villages (e.g. Sea Cliff, Bayville, Laurel Hollow, Farmingdale)
  → Town of Oyster Bay

Suffolk County Villages → Parent Town

• Babylon villages (Amityville, Babylon, Lindenhurst)
  → Town of Babylon

• Brookhaven villages (Patchogue, Port Jefferson, Bellport, Shoreham)
  → Town of Brookhaven

• Huntington villages (Northport, Lloyd Harbor, Huntington Bay)
  → Town of Huntington

• Islip villages (Brightwaters, Islandia, Ocean Beach, Saltaire)
  → Town of Islip

• Smithtown villages (Nissequogue, Head of the Harbor)
  → Town of Smithtown

• Southampton villages (Sag Harbor*, Quogue, Sagaponack, Westhampton Beach)
  → Town of Southampton

• East Hampton Village
  → Town of East Hampton

• Greenport Village
  → Town of Southold

• Dering Harbor
  → Town of Shelter Island

*Sag Harbor residents use East Hampton or Southampton depending on address.