Text a Pickup is a service provided by EH&S to collect hazardous waste beyond normal organic/aqueous hazardous waste. They will collect waste in 1-3 business days.

To use text a pickup, text hwp@uci.edu with the following information:

PI Name
Building and Room #
KFS account number
Specifically what containers should be picked up
A picture of the containers or the area the containers are located

Text a Pickup can collect the following:

Green buckets of hazardous waste
Sharps containers
White jugs that contain particularly hazardous waste, such as aqua regia, silica gel, oxidizing waste, Pd/C waste, and more
Bottles full of expired reagents
Unquenched bottles of pyrophoric reagents

When you text a pickup, you send an email to a real EH&S member, so for more complicated pickups you can include more information or request confirmation. For example, if there is a hazardous expired bottle of something currently stored in the fridge, you can request that EH&S picks up at a specific time so it can remain in the fridge until then.