Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
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Creating a Connecticut Food Waste Prevention and Food Recovery Roadmap
DEEP is creating a Connecticut roadmap for food waste prevention and food recovery with assistance from an Environmental Defense Fund/ReFED Climate Fellow.
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Information concerning the bottle bill
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Archived Municipal Recycling Coordinators E-News and Webinars
Archived e-newsletters and webinars are topical, and provide resources and information of interest to local municipalities.
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State Agency Recycling Reporting Forms
each state agency having care, control, and supervision of state property, including the Judicial Department and the Joint Committee on Legislative Management of the General Assembly is required to have a recycling plan in place and annually submit to DEEP and the General Assembly Environment Committee a report, on a form prescribed by DEEP, on implementation of the recycling plan.
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Summary of Connecticut's Bottle Bill laws
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Connecticut Redemption Centers
Redemption Centers are private businesses that work with distributors of carbonated beverages to redeem bottles and cans with a deposit value.
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Recycling Main Page - Formerly General Information on Recycling in Connecticut
Recycling is the process of creating new products from used materials.
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ReUse Centers and Material Exchanges
Donating and buying reusable goods not only helps protect the environment, it also helps your local economy.
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Waste paper is traded on a world wide commodity basis through a network of brokers and exporters.
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The State Electronics Challenge is a voluntary program that encourages state, regional, and local governments, including schools, to purchase greener products, reduce the impacts of electronic products during use, and manage obsolete electronics in an environmentally safe way.
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Fluorescent Lamp Recycling Facilities
The following businesses have indicated that they accept fluorescent lamps for recycling. Contact the facility for the types of lamps they accept and the conditions for delivery.
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Recycling Laws - Annotated List
The following tables present an annotated list of the current Connecticut General Statutes (laws) pertaining to recycling.
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Municipal Recycling Honor Roll
In 2002, in an effort to honor those Connecticut municipalities with outstanding recycling/source reduction programs, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection started the CT Municipal Recycling Honor Roll.
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Connecticut's Electronic Recycling Law
In July of 2007, the State of Connecticut was one of the first in a growing list of states that adopted an Electronics Recycling Law concerning the recycling of household electronic waste (e-waste).