While Connecticut has enacted legislation requiring a 5¢ deposit on the retail purchase of certain beverages, and redemption centers are located at sites throughout the state (including grocery and package stores), many aluminum beverage containers are delivered to WMRA by the TROC region. Also, small amounts of aluminum foil typically used by consumers for food packaging and preparation also are recycled.

According to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), the national recycling rate for aluminum in 2005 was 52% (well below the 1997 peak of 67%). Fewer natural resources are used to create new containers from recycled aluminum cans, and recovery of used beverage containers conserved the equivalent of more than 15 million barrels of oil. Recycling 40 aluminum beverage cans has the energy-saving equivalent of one gallon of gasoline.