Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

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• Connecticut Bottle Bill

  Information concerning the bottle bill

• Expanding Your School Recycling Program

  Once your school or school district has established a successful recycling and waste reduction program for state and locally mandated items, you should consider expanding your efforts to include other categories of waste found in your school’s waste stream.

• School Recycling and Organics Management

  All schools in Connecticut are required by state law to recycle mandated items.

• Trends in Recycling Collection Single Stream Main Page

  changing to a single stream system goes hand-in-hand with automated collection equipment, and larger (96 or 64 gallon) lidded containers on wheels.

• Small Business Recycling

  State recycling requirements apply to everyone in Connecticut, including the small business owner.

• Zero Waste

  Zero Waste is a philosophy and a design principle for the 21st Century. It includes 'recycling' but goes beyond recycling by taking a 'whole system' approach to the vast flow of resources and waste through human society.

• E-Waste Regulations External Advisory Group

  The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (Department) formed an external workgroup to provide advice and guidance to the Department in developing regulations to implement Connecticut’s E-waste recycling law.

• Beverage Container Recycling Grant Program

• Local Municipal Recycling Coordinators

  Every CT Municipality is required to designate a local recycling coordinator

• Textiles Reuse & Recycling

  Besides clothing, such as shirts, pants, dresses and shorts – textiles include bedding, backpacks, curtains, towels, stuffed animals, gloves, belts, ties, purses, handbags, shoes, slippers, undergarments and even holey socks!