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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 will be chipping
brush in mid June. 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. Please check for exact
dates before bringing brush to be sure you won’t
be turned away!
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.
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”.
On 6/12/09 (delayed from 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. It
was scheduled to start on 7/1/09, but has been
delayed until winter 2009/10, as soon as the
regulations can get approved. Click
here for the full text of the original
legislation, or
here for a 2/24/09 update from DEP on the
current status of regulations. 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 soon. According to
a Nielsen Media Research (New York) survey,
10 million U.S. households would not
have been 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 …
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:
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”
Commercial Customers of
the Transfer Station, note new price list effective
7/1/09
here.
 HazWaste
Central
at Long Wharf is open for the season 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.
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 fall flyer should have been received by all Branford households but
we know a few were missed! Read about what goes in
the recycling box and what’s the story with
plastics.
At
the Transfer Station we recycle unwanted electronic
waste that has a screen, like a TV or a computer
monitor; or that has a circuit board, like a
computer CPU or VCR. 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.
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. For other types of
BATTERIES click to
learn where they can go.
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.
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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