Recycling

A key committee in the Connecticut General Assembly has approved a bill that would raise the deposit fee for recyclable bottles from five to ten cents.The…

Long Island municipalities violated a state law when they stopped recycling glass before submitting a market analysis that looked at the full costs of the…

Town officials say they support Governor Ned Lamont’s proposal to expand Connecticut’s 5 cent bottle deposit law. It would include wine, liquor and…

Connecticut cities and towns will face hundreds of thousands of dollars in unexpected costs for curbside recycling this year.A report from the Connecticut…

Have you ever thought about what happens to all the materials you throw into the recycling bin? How much of it actually gets recycled. A series published…

Three Suffolk County towns have reached an agreement to jointly deal with a recycling crisis caused when a company pulled out of its contract to handle…

The Town of Islip on Long Island is educating residents about safe recycling habits after gunpowder exploded in a recycling truck in August and another…

The Town of Brookhaven has the largest single-stream recycling program on Long Island. But it is under threat because the plant that processes the…

A new partnership between Suffolk County and local schools will set up a recycling program to encourage students to be more environmentally friendly and…

For the first time, recycling rules are now uniform across Connecticut.Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Commissioner Robert Klee has…