Harwinton Recycling

05/21/2024

Please call the Recycling Office at 860-485-2784 to register for htis event or email [email protected] REgistrstion ends at noon on June 6th.

05/07/2024

Rgistration is now open for Household Hazardous Waste. Please call 860-485-2784 to register. You must have a ticket to participate.

08/03/2023

06/29/2023

Tip of Week

12/26/2019

Now that Christmas is over, we all have to deal with the aftermath of all those gifts.

In Connecticut, wrappng paper is not recyclable. Please dispose of this in your regular trash.

All those cardboard boxes from all the online shopping IS recyclable so please break down all those big cardboard boxes and place them in your blue recycling bin.

Styrofoam and the plastic bags of air, bubble wrap and all those Styrofoam packing peanuts ARE NOT recyclable so please dispose of these in your trash bin.

Once you remove all the ornaments, lights, and tinsel from your tree, you can bring it to the Conservation area and it will be chipped and used for mulch. PLEASE NO WREATHS OR OTHER EVERGREEN GARLANDS ETC.

Also whip cream cans are recyclable in your regular recycling cart, but other non-food aerosols should be disposed of in your regular trash. Any other items you are unsure of, check at www.recyclect.com

In the next few days you should receive your 2020 recycling schedule for the town of Harwinton. Happy Holidays!!

12/12/2019

The holidays are officially in full swing. And that means our weekends are packed with cocktail parties, wrapping presents and hosting friends and family for dinner.
But all that fun comes with a whole lot of waste.

Cheat sheet: What not to put in your recycling bin

“We call this Santa’s bad list. If you can’t reuse or donate these items, put them in a waste container, not your recycling bin,” says Walters.
• Bubble wrap
• Cellophane
• Plastic bags (try recycling shopping bags at your local grocery store)
• Christmas lights
• Ribbons
• Bows
• Batteries (see recycling and disposal tips below)
• Food packaging and waste
• Clothing and shoes
• Holiday lights
• Electronics (see recycling and disposal tips below)
• Foam packaging
• Christmas wrapping paper
Here are more specific guidelines on what you can recycle this time of year — and the best way to do it.

Recycling bin:

• Cardboard and paper boxes for gifts and shoes
• Plain paper gift bags
• Holiday cards and envelopes that don’t have embellishments like glitter and glued on decorations
• Sticky gift tags are not recyclable by themselves, but they are acceptable if affixed to an envelope or wrapping paper

Garbage can:

• Plastic bubble wrap, air pillows and all types of foam packaging
• Ribbons and bows because the material and size are not suitable for recycling
• Gift bags that are laminated, coated, dyed or glittered
• Cellophane wrap
• Christmas wrapping paper
Cardboard boxes:
• Flattening the boxes will save space in the bin.
• Don’t put your recyclables inside the box and then in the bin. Recycling should always stay separated and loose; never bag or box it.
• If you’re an online shopping, all those flexible plastic packing materials — bubble wrap, air pillows — can’t go in the recycling bin. Since they are flexible, they tend to wrap and tangle around the sorting equipment at the recycling center.