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Important Information:
Brush/Mulch
At the Transfer Station we chip the brush you bring
us into mulch which is available to residents
for free while supplies last!
For current chipping status in the future or
for last minute changes, please either
● Sign up under
News and Announcements for us
to e-mail you the chipping schedule when we know
it, or
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Re-check this site, or
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After hours phone the Recycling Hotline at
315-0622, option “2” for schedules, or
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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.
To reserve a recycling box, phone 315-0622, and
reserved boxes may be picked up at the transfer
station. Check here for details.
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”.
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:
“OPT
OUT” OF RECEIVING PHONE BOOKS
It’s that time of year
when the phone company seems to deliver multiple
versions of local phone books on your door step.
Although some of the companies distribute these
books to increase their advertising revenue you may
consider this if you do not want that pile of yellow
bags accumulating on your front lawn.
To stop receiving so many
books at home, you can “opt out” at
www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org
At the
Branford Transfer Station we’ve recycled
Computers, TVs, and other
Electronic Waste since 1999. Connecticut was
successful in passing legislation requiring
manufacturers to pay for recycling starting as soon
as regulations get finalized in winter 2009/10.
The draft regulations are
here. The new state law is
here. Many manufacturers and some
large retailers have take-back programs also, some
of which even pay you for PDAs, cell phones, or
other gadgets! A web site with a pretty
comprehensive list of what’s out there is from
PC Magazine.
We
can send you an email when we have unusual
situations like modifying collections for severe
weather, or closing the back of the transfer station
for brush chipping. Sign up
here
and check “News and Announcements”
At the
Curb in your Blue Box:
You may now put
Phone Books
in the paper bag with your newspapers, magazine, and
catalogs.
On large cardboard day once a month we now take
empty cereal boxes, paper towel tubes, tissue boxes,
and other flat cardboard along with the corrugated
cardboard boxes.
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. For other types of
BATTERIES click to
learn where they can go.
We have 2 drop boxes for textiles, and that’s more
than just clothes!
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
at Long Wharf is closed for the season. It
reopens on May 15, 2010 and is then open every
Saturday morning from 9 AM to noon until the end of
October except during holiday weekends. It
takes household hazardous waste like pesticides or
oil-based paints from residents for free, and from
small businesses by appointment.
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
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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