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Important Information:
Brush/Mulch
The transfer station accepts brush that we chip into
mulch for residents to take for free! 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. Brush
was chipped in early June so we don't expect to
chip again until fall.
Free mulch is available for Branford
residents with a residence sticker while
supplies last!
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)
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.
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
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What's New:
No
change in collection days for summer! We’ve
simplified the trash routes to once-a-week all year,
matching your recycling route. Click
here
to look up your once-a-week collection day for your
year-round schedule, or
here
for a printable copy of the whole schedule flyer.
G et
your Green Cone
here!
Food scraps; plate scrapings; spoiled dairy
products or pasta; cooked and uncooked meat, poultry
or fish, bones and all; or even pet waste – don’t
let them smell up the trash any more! Pilot program
for the first 200 households to respond. Similar to
a compost bin, but no need to turn or empty!
Check
out details here.
Residence stickers valid through March 31, 2010 are available for
purchase at the Tax Collectors office.
For more information
click here
2008
Thimble Islands CollectionSchedules and Instructions.
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
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
is open Saturdays, May
10 to October 25, 2008 from 9:00 AM to noon to
accept your household hazardous wastes. Closed
holiday weekends.
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.
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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