Robert E Wright Recycling Projects

Robert E Wright supports many pro-environment campaigns. In support of their programs, it has also established two recycling plants in Connecticut, the two facilities in the North Meadows and the Trash-to-Energy Plant, which were considered to be the safest in the state.

For years, Robert E Wright has been reminding people the importance of recycling. For the second year in a row, 63 cities and towns have received checks to prove it. In fact, people have collected a total of more than $400,000 – $5 for every qualifying ton of recyclables; they delivered to CRRA during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009. The CRRA Board of Directors today voted to authorize the rebates, which will be distributed after tonnage figures are finalized.

In 2008, CRRA introduced to Connecticut single-stream recycling, the next generation of recycling.

In 2009, CRRA supported the introduction of single-stream recycling with a public awareness campaign that featured radio advertisements, printed materials and press interviews. CRRA’s education programs, offered through the Trash Museum in Hartford and the Garbage Museum in Stratford, have drawn record numbers of participants for three straight years. As a result of these efforts, residents of Mid-Connecticut Project towns recycled 80,953 tons of material in fiscal 2009. Add in 301 tons of electronics (not part of the rebate program) collected at CRRA recycling events, and those towns recycled 81,254 tons of waste, an all-time Project record.

Some noteworthy accomplishments include the West Hartford Project which recycled nearly 6,091.98 tons, for a rebate of $30,459.90. On a per-resident basis, the best recyclers were the towns of Sharon and Salisbury, which, through their shared transfer station recycled 1,024.72 tons, or 287.24 pounds per resident. Those towns received $5,123.60. Portland recycled 823.69 tons, an increase of more than 133 percent over its FY 2008 totals, while increasing its recycling rate (the ratio of recyclables to garbage delivered to the Mid-Connecticut Project) by more than 122 percent. Portland’s rebate was $4,118.45.

Recycling statistics do not include electronics (recycled through CRRA, manufacturers or retailers) and do not include other forms of recycling, such as deposit container redemption, composting of grass clippings, yard waste and food, and recycling of other commodities, including scrap metal, waste oil, lead-acid batteries. After taking all these other materials into consideration, the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection estimates that Connecticut recycles about 30 percent of its solid waste.

The Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority is a quasi-public agency whose mission is to work for –and in – the best interests of the municipalities of the state of Connecticut. CRRA also runs environmental and recycling educational programs through the Trash Museum in Hartford and Garbage Museum in Stratford.

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