STAMFORD — Municipal recycling has increased by 39 percent since Stamford adopted a single-stream system one year ago, according to city officials.

It may be trash to most folks, but to those in the waste business, people’s garbage is a valuable commodity. And that’s why there;s a bidding war growing for the estimated 750,000 tons of garbage that 70 towns and cities pay more than $500 million a year to burn at a trash-to-energy plant in Hartford.
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A state official sent word Wednesday that Derby will receive a permit for its transfer station on Pine Street. It is not clear when the city will re-open the facility. via State Green Lights Derby Transfer Station | Valley Independent Sentinel.

Dennis Schain, a DEP spokesman, confirmed retailers who sell bottles must charge the deposit and then return them when a person returns a bottle of the same product. It doesn’t have to be one they sold, either; just as long as the store sells that brand, in that size, it has to return the deposit.
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The existing Murphy Road Recycling, LLC recycling facility will process only paper and cardboard and incorporates the same features previously permitted: offices; a truck scale; outdoor staging areas for loaded/empty containers; and a processing building provided with loading docks, and a tipping floor incorporating an indoor rail spur, unloading and storage areas and various mechanical
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The State Bond Commission has approved $5 million to fund the closure of the Hartford Landfill. The funding, which will be awarded to the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority (CRRA), is the final installment for the closure project, which has already commenced in the Hartford’s north-end.

The town’s new single-stream recycling program is set to begin this week. Under the new system people can put all recycling into a single container for bi-weekly collection. via East Hartford rolls out single stream recycling program – Courant.com.

The city had been waiting until July 1, the first day of the new fiscal year, to get moving on one part a plan to reform the way the city recycles. The big plan is to downsize residents’ regular trash bins, and upsize their recycling bins, to encourage more recycling—and save the city money. The
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WILTON — A plastic bag ban could be initiated in Wilton as early as this fall.At Tuesday night’s Board of Selectmen meeting, a proposed Plastic Bag Ordinance was discussed, along with a timeline for debating the issue further. Selectman Ted Hoffstatter said a plastic bag ordinance is a great idea for the already environmentally-friendly town.
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For more than 25 years, beer and soda drinkers in Massachusetts pay a little extra every time they shop. Every bottle or can carries a 5-cent surcharge. Bring the container back empty, and they get that nickel back. Now lawmakers and environmental advocates want to expand the law to cover water bottles and other non-carbonated
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The expansion of the state’s nickel-deposit program to include water bottles is resulting in less revenue than lawmakers planned, as consumers apparently balk at paying higher prices. The law kicked in on Oct. 1, amid projections that unredeemed deposits, called escheats, would help the state’s financial problems, while reducing litter. The state Department of Environmental
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Norwich – It will be a strange sight at the Uncas Elementary School on July 16 as a team of “superheroes” greets the public to collect their old computers, discarded cell phones and even old cassette tapes and DVDs. The 105 students in the six-week Bridges summer enrichment program are learning what it means to
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PORTLAND — Oregon’s first-in-the-nation environmental plan for recycling paint goes into effect on Thursday, and consumers will see the price of paint increase with it. The paint “take back” program was passed by the Legislature in 2009 after similar measures failed in Vermont and Connecticut. via Oregon paint recycling program a national first | Statesman
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MIDDLETOWN — The common council has approved an ordinance to create a resource recycling advisory commission.

Old Lyme – The town has renewed its residential trash pick-up contract with Old Lyme-based Shoreline Sanitation Inc. The Day – Old Lyme renews trash contract | News from southeastern Connecticut.

In a proposal likely to pass swiftly next week, city officials are seeking to establish a $15 fee for commercial haulers and non-residents to drop off recycling at the city transfer station. via City close to expanding recycling program – StamfordAdvocate.

“Normally we demo and dump. Now we ‘deconstruct’ and salvage.” That was the key lesson builder Tim Washington learned from a literally hands-on and groundbreaking program in green demolition that the city is offering to small contractors.

PLAINVILLE — At first, J.W. Green in Plainville doesn’t look very interesting. A few modular buildings, piles of scrap metal, some large machinery and some trucks are the scene that greets visitors arriving at the Washington Street facility. However, the work done there is an important part of industry. Indeed, the recycling of old metal
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Try to use a reusable water bottle and recycle when you can’t.

A new statewide “e-waste” recycling system for obsolete electronic equipment – computers, monitors, printers, televisions and other devices – could be set up for state residents as early as this fall, state officials said Saturday. Do you live in a state with e-waste laws? You can check out a map of which states have what
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