Recycling Committee

50 New Bottle & Can Receptacles!

The mayor held a press conference recently to announce that 50 new receptacles have been purchased to place at our beaches for bottle amd can recycling. We hope they get a good work out! Do refrain however from putting your home recycling in these public receptacles. The trash cans at the beaches in the summer sometimes get filled by local folks bringing all their excess home trash, and that ends up defeating the program.

CT Post Article - 'Boy Scout inspires recycling initiative'

MILFORD — The city's latest recycling initiative comes through a Boy Scout's suggestion. In an announcement Friday on the steps of City Hall, Mayor James L. View Full Story

Hot Air
(a recycling series)
by Barbara Currier Bell

Guess which one is Barbara...

Barbara Currier Bell writes an environmental column for the Milford paper titled HOT AIR. Well written and useful we will be archiving the columns pertaining to recycling here on the ECC site so that they can be referred to easily.

Barbara is a member of the Connecticut Siting Council, which has jurisdiction over the siting of power facilities, transmission lines and various other forms of infrastructure including telecommunications sites, specifically evaluating their environmental impact.

She has written extensively on critical theory and modern poetry and has served as a consultant on women's education at both Vassar and Hampshire Colleges , and as assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University. She is a member of ECC and MEPI.

Committee Pages

Where to Recycle

Check out the Recycling Primer!

Recycling Links

Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority

What Goes in a Milford Blue Bin

View the Electronic Industries Alliance Consumer Education Initiative at www.eiae.org to find reuse and recycling programs state by state.

Check out www.plugintirecycling.org to learn about the EPA's Recycling campaign.

Donate a phone to the Call to Protect campaign, which collects phones for victims of domestic violence. www.wirelessfoundation.org

For a database of organizations seeking donated computers and info on recycling old computers (or to get computers for your group) www.sharetechnology.org

A resource page of links concerning the bottle bill expansion to include water. 30 billion single serve water bottles are sold per year!