Hopkins School, for grades 7-12, in New Haven, Connecticut. received 101 points in the 2012 Green Cup RECYCLE Challenge, a national student-driven recycling competition for K-12 schools sponsored by the non-profit Green Schools Alliance (GSA). Hopkins also had 91% of its bins properly sorted. The school — which had just finished the Green Cup Energy
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By Diane Duv, assistant director of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. We were puzzled by the Hartford Business Journal’s criticism (“Tale of Two Numbers Shows State’s Folly,” 5/7/12) of our state’s efforts to remove items like obsolete computer terminals, televisions and used mattresses from the waste stream so that materials from them can
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The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protect has suspended indefinitely all proceedings connected to a controversial Recycling Inc. application. Commissioner Daniel C. Esty wrote in a statement late Wednesday that a tentative approval the company received in February for 990 Naugatuck Ave. may be withdrawn, and the project could be denied if it is
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Covanta Energy Corporation announced a new partnership with the Town of Southbury Friday for services that will include sustainable waste disposal and recycling. via Southbury Pursues Sustainable Waste Management Services – Southbury, CT Patch.

As CBS 2’s Lou Young found out on Thursday, the town of Westport thinks it has a cure for that particular type of “separation anxiety.” On recycling day you’ll notice something probably a lot different from the way it works at your house. “Everything goes in one place now. It’s great!” resident Carol Dulce told
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HP and Staples are encouraging New Haven-area consumers and small businesses to recycle responsibly with a new program that will accept a broad range of gadgets, regardless of where they were originally bought and regardless of the brand-name logo on the outside. Electronics can be dropped off and recycled for FREE at any Staples store.

The Connecticut DEEP is seeking proposals for solid waste management technical assistance for municipalities.   The RFP for Solid Waste Management Technical Assistance  has been updated to include responses to questions received between Feb 3 and Feb 24, 2012. Please access the RFP including questions and answers via this link: http://www.biznet.ct.gov/SCP_Search/BidDetail.aspx?CID=24287 The deadline for proposals is
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Recycle Old or Obsolete Electronic Devices with CRRA . . . and Clean Out Those Home File Cabinets, Too CRRA Offers Paper Shredding at Five Electronics Collections HARTFORD, Conn. – Now you can recycle more than just your old electronic devices with the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority. CRRA has added bulk paper shredding and recycling
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HARTFORD — The Senate approved a controversial bill Wednesday to restore the right of municipalities to regulate solid waste facilities. The move stems from a long-running dispute over the proposed expansion of a recycling business in Milford. For more on this story, visit: State Senate Approves Controversial Milford Recycling Bill – Courant.com.

The House approved and sent to the Senate an “emergency-certified” bill that restores local regulatory control over solid-waste facilities, a reaction to a court ruling in November in a Milford case involving a legislator’s husband. For more on this story, visit: House restores local zoning over solid-waste facilities | The Connecticut Mirror.

MILFORD – State Sen. Gayle Slossberg (D-Milford) is calling on the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to conduct a public hearing on the proposed expansion of a solid waste facility that residents believe poses a significant threat to public health safety and the environment. Slossberg sent a letter Feb. 16 on behalf of the
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A Middletown developer wants to do what the Europeans are doing, recycle their buildings. Wheelabrator’s trash to energy plant in Lisbon has been turning waste into electricity for nearly a dozen years. For more on this story, visit: Construction waste facility proposed for Lisbon – WFSB Channel 3.

Briggs Baugh, who helped his hometown of Greenwich become one of the state’s best recycling communities, has been honored for his decades of achievements with the Connecticut Recyclers Coalition’s Recycling Pioneer award.

The DEEP preliminary decision to approve a permit application for Recycling Inc. of Milford would allow the company to construct and operate a solid waste processing, transfer, and recycling facility at 990 Naugatuck Ave.

For the seventh year in a row, Connecticut College is participating in RecycleMania, a recycling competition that promotes waste reduction at colleges and universities across the country.

HARTFORD, Conn. – Jim Perras has joined the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority as its government relations liaison, according to a news release. In this position he is responsible for providing information to state officials and government agencies regarding CRRA initiatives and issues surrounding solid waste disposal, energy generation, recycling and the environment. Prior to joining
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“It should be like another utility,” said John Phetteplace, the solid waste manager for the Town of Stonington. “You pay for your water; you pay for your electricity; you pay for your trash.” If you want to pay less, he said, generate less trash. For more on this story, visit: Pay-as-you-throw could be the future
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(HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Dannel P. Malloy has announced that he is establishing an eleven-member working group to analyze and make recommendations on how the state can modernize its approach to recycling, reduce waste through improved materials management and lower costs for municipalities and consumers. “Last year, unlike other states, we did not balance the
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CJ May has been a part of the Yale community since 1988, when he started as a student at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies; since 1990 he has coordinated Yale Recycling. He dresses like a cross between a recycler and office employee: his dark blue pants are constricted at his ankle by a
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The Results Are In: 2011 Game Day Challenge Winners WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the winners of the 2011 Game Day Challenge, a competition among U.S. colleges and universities with the goal of lowering waste generated at college football games and increasing participation in and awareness of waste reduction programs.
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