LATEST NEWS

March 10th, 2010 - Tunxis Recycling Operating Committee Announces Household Hazardous Waste Collections for 2010. 2010 Household Hazardous Waste Collections for TROC member communities. (...) [ read more ]

March 2nd, 2010 - BRRFOC and TROC Adopt Fiscal 2010-2011 Budget. BRRFOC Tipping Fees Reduced to Lowest Level in Six Years; TROC Recycling Fees Drop 10.4%; Return to (...) [ read more ]

LATEST LEGISLATION

March 8th, 2010 - Testimony of the Bristol Resource Recovery Facility & Tunxis Recycling Operating Committees to the Legislative Program & Review Investigations Committee March 8, 2010. Testimony of the Bristol Resource Recovery Facility Operating Committee & the Tunxis Recycling Operating Committee (...) [ read more ]

March 8th, 2010 - Testimony of the Bristol Resource Recovery Facility Operating Committee And the Tunxis Recycling Operating Committee to the Environment Committee March 8, 2010. An Act Concerning Recycling, Certain Solid Waste Management Reforms and Requirements for Solid Waste and (...) [ read more ]

Aluminum

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.