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Important Information:
Brush/Mulch
At the
Transfer Station we accept brush that we chip
into mulch that residents may take for free
while supplies last! We chipped brush in
mid September, and do not expect to chip again
until winter. We cannot accept brush on
the days when we are chipping the brush, since,
for safety reasons, we cannot allow anyone on
the back of the property while the machine is
running.
For current chipping status in the future please
either
● Re-check this site, or
● After hours phone the Recycling
Hotline at 315-0622, option “2” for schedules,
or
● Phone the transfer station at 483-8641
to confirm prior to bringing brush on a
weekday. Saturdays should always be safe.
Leaf Compost
Leaf compost is available for free to residents
if you bring your own containers and digging
implements. Help yourself to carload
quantities. No contractors, or full
truck-loads, please. The unscreened compost
(as-is) is available for $6/ton with a
commercial account.
How to get a Residence
Sticker, Card, or Trip Pass
Take the Waste
Reduction Challenge!
Can you
reduce and recycle 60 pounds more than last
year?
Read about how your neighbors are trying.
Add your own success stories by writing us at
WasteChallenge@Branford-CT.gov ! Share ideas. Read
the
fall 2006 flyer for details.
Branford Not a CRRA Member (read
here)
The
CT State Solid Waste Management Plan
sets out a Vision, Goals, and specific Strategies to
try to get 58% recycling state-wide by the year
2024. Read the Executive Summary or the whole plan.
Changing the Balance
Electronics Recycling Legislation: WE DID IT!! The
Connecticut General Assembly has passed
Public Act 07-189
which mandates the recycling of TVs and
computer CPUs & monitors, with the manufacturers
paying the costs of collection, transportation, and
recycling effective January 1, 2009. Click
here for the full text of the legislation. This
bill was sponsored by Rep Pat Widlitz (Guilford &
Stony Creek) with strong support from the
Connecticut
Recyclers Coalition the DEP
and Senator Meyer (Branford and area) among others.
Please thank them.
We Need Your Help and Your Input:
We try our best to
keep this web site absolutely up to date, but if
you find something we missed, a link that
doesn’t work, or something you’d like to see,
please write at
SolidWaste@Branford-CT.gov
and we'll try to
fix it.
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What's New:
The offices for the Department of Solid Waste and
Recycling have relocated from Town Hall to the
Transfer Station at 747 East Main St.
New hours are Mon – Fri from 7:15 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.
when the transfer station is open.
Phones are staffed from 6:45 A.M. to 3:15 P.M. Mon –
Fri. Call 315-0622 and ask for Sharon.
This number is still the 24-hour information line
after hours. To reserve a recycling box, phone
315-0622, and reserved boxes may be picked up at the
transfer station. Solid Waste Manager, Peg Hall, is
available by appointment.
Earth Matters,
our new fall flyer should be received by all
households in mid November, but you can see it here
and now! Read about what goes in the recycling
box and what’s the story with plastics.
OCRegister.com
(Santa Ana, California)
recently published a round-up of 11 Web sites
that offer money for unwanted consumer electronics
[The Town of Branford has not screened nor endorsed
these web sites.]
Short Videos now
available!
Home Composting
and
Lawn Care
INFORM’s Secret Life Series: A collection of
videos that highlight the environmental impacts of
everyday products we all use. First video:
Cell phones
Just released:
Paper
At the
Curb in your Blue Box:
You may now put
Phone Books
in the paper bag with your newspapers, magazine, and
catalogs.
At the Transfer Station:
We now have a drop box for
books, audio books, CDs, DVDs,
LPs (remember those?) videos, computer software and
games, and sports memorabilia.
Click here.
We have a drop box for RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES and
cell phones, located in the electronics shed.
Nickel cadmium, nickel metal hydride, lithium ion,
and more.
Click
here.
Take a load off at the
Transfer Station!
Now accepting clothing and
other textiles!
Learn more
here!
Ex-sight-ing
News! Prescription eyeglasses now being accepted at
the Transfer Station!
Learn more
here!
All Around Town:
There are Thrift
Shops and drop boxes that take more than you might
know about.
Click
here for the newest flyer.
Check out suggestions for
"Green Books" to read, or
write in
more suggestions of your own.
HazWaste Central
has closed for the
season. It will reopen in mid May. On
2/17/09 the US will be switching to all digital
TV. In Connecticut, we were successful in
passing legislation requiring manufacturers to
pay for recycling old TVs starting 7/1/09.
In Branford we’ve been recycling them since
1999, so it will be nice to have the
manufacturers foot the bill for TVs, computers,
and printers after July. According to a
Nielsen Media Research (New York) survey, 10
million U.S. households will not be ready for
the DTV switch. Lower income and blue collar
households were sited as the least prepared for
the transition to digital television
transmissions … The Electronics TakeBack
Coalition (San Francisco) has released a new
humorous
promotion as part of its ongoing Take Back
My TV campaign — Revenge of the Return of
the Undead Toxic Televisions Strike Back
…
http://www.cga.ct.gov/ will get you to
the current status of any pending state
legislation. Type the bill number in at the
top of the page.
When this department is out to bid for any item or
service, that bid appears with all other current
town bids
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