Osceola County publishes two incompatible statements about year-round household chemical fees. Its standing hazardous-waste page says County households can use Bass Road or Peghorn Way at no cost. Its free-disposal-day page says year-round tire and hazardous-waste service at Bass Road requires fees.
Do not silently choose one. Confirm the exact customer, item, site, and date before loading the vehicle, and retain the County’s answer.
What the two pages actually disagree about
| County page | Published statement | What it clearly covers | Safe action |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dispose of Hazardous Waste | Household chemicals are no-cost at Bass Road or Peghorn Way | Osceola residential households, including Kissimmee and St. Cloud; not businesses | Use the item and packaging rules, then confirm the current fee for the exact load |
| Free Residential Tire & Household Chemical Disposal Days | Year-round tire and hazardous-waste disposal at Bass Road requires fees | Special 2026 Saturdays with no-charge passenger-tire terms and household chemical acceptance | Do not transfer the tire event’s benefit or the broad fee sentence without County clarification |
The conflict appears on the standing hazardous-waste page and free-day page. Call Bass Road at 407-742-7780 with the material, quantity, household status and intended date; ask which fee applies to that exact trip. Note the answer and when it was given. LSL has not obtained a staff resolution of the conflicting pages.
Complete a seven-field load card
- Customer. Confirm Osceola household origin. The event explicitly requires photo ID and residency proof; ask what documentation the receiving site needs for an ordinary trip. Business and commercial waste are excluded.
- Exact item. Write the product label, category, amount, and condition. Mark unknown material as unknown; do not identify it by guess.
- Container. The standing page says hazardous material must be in containers of five gallons or smaller and rejects 55-gallon drums.
- Uncertain or damaged material. Ask the facility for instructions before planning transport. Do not mix, open or repackage chemicals to complete this card; it is not a handling procedure.
- Facility. Record Bass Road or the St. Cloud Transfer Station on Peghorn Way. Do not infer that both accept every material under the same conditions.
- Live date and hours. Check the current County page immediately before travel.
- Fee and outcome. Retain the County confirmation, payment or no-charge receipt, accepted items, and any alternate route for rejected material.
The County waste router separates hazardous waste from curbside collection, yard-waste disposal, free events, and service requests. Keep those program records separate.
Match the standing item list
The hazardous-waste page names:
- antifreeze, solvents, car batteries, oil, filters, brake and transmission fluid, and used gasoline of five gallons or less;
- spray paint, paint cans, thinners, solvents, and wood preservatives;
- cooking oil, propane tanks, fire extinguishers, and unknown chemicals;
- pesticides, insect products, weed killer, and poisons;
- drain and oven cleaners, degreasers, waxes, muriatic acid, and pool chemicals;
- computers, monitors, televisions, phones, VCRs, and named detectors; and
- several single-use, rechargeable, alkaline, and lead-acid battery types.
The list does not prove that a damaged, reacting, over-size, mixed, business-generated, or otherwise unusual load is safe to transport or will be accepted. Ask before moving it.
Keep the tire event on its own timeline
At the September 20 review, November 7, 2026 is the remaining listed free-disposal Saturday at Bass Road, 7 a.m.–noon. The same page also lists April 25 and August 15, which are past dates, not future options. Confirm the November event before travel. Its tire terms are:
- four passenger-car tires per household at no charge at the event;
- eight tires per household per year;
- photo ID and proof of residency; and
- no vendors or commercial tires.
Four at one event and eight per year are different limits. Do not infer that every resident receives two guaranteed four-tire trips or that another tire class qualifies.
Household chemicals may also be brought on those Saturdays under the page’s item and packaging instructions. The special date does not resolve the standing fee conflict for ordinary year-round service.
Choose the facility from current records
At the September 20 source check, the standing page listed:
- Bass Road, 750 S. Bass Road, Kissimmee: Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., last household-chemical load at 2:45 p.m.; and
- St. Cloud Transfer Station, 2701 Peghorn Way, St. Cloud: Monday through Saturday, 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Hours can change. Call the County for the exact material and facility when a trip depends on a closing time, holiday, quantity, or special handling.
If material is reacting, smoking, bulging, releasing fumes, or creating an immediate hazard, move away and use the appropriate emergency direction. This article helps plan a trip; it is not a chemical-safety procedure.
Source and method
Local Service Ledger compared the County’s standing hazardous-waste page, dated free-disposal page, and waste-program index on September 20, 2026. We preserved the fee disagreement and normalized customer, item, container, facility, schedule, tire, and outcome fields. We did not transport material, visit a facility, identify a substance, or ask the County to resolve a hypothetical load.