City of Stamford Residential Single-Stream Recycling Program

Free weekly curbside recycling is provided for residents throughout the City of Stamford. 

Residential Single Stream Recycling
• Single stream recycling allows residents to place all recyclable items in one single recycling bin. Reduce much of your trash by recycling – it’s easy and it’s the law.

• Please read this brochure for all allowable items to be recycled in the new recycling bin. Please call Dan Colleluori at203-977-4117 or email him at dcolleluori@ci.stamford.ct.us to receive the new recycling bin. Place this brochure in a convenient location to reference when needed.

• Confirm your garbage and recycling days online at www.stamfordrecycles.org or www.cityofstamford.org.

Recycling Saves Money
• The success of our waste reduction and recycling efforts depends on all of us. The City of Stamford is doing its part to reduce waste, expenses, and to help our environment. The City spends millions of dollars each year to haul away garbage. By selling recycled materials, we increase revenues and reduce our garbage expenses by millions of dollars – which helps all city taxpayers.

• It is a Connecticut State law that all households, schools, and businesses recycle. Recycling waste helps to keep taxes low by not having to pay for those goods to be added to the waste stream. In addition, recycling reduces rodent problems, protects public health, and ensures cleaner streets. Please recycle at school, work, and at home.

Hazardous Materials & Electronics Recycling
• Check local newspapers or www.cityofstamford.org for annual Hazardous Materials and Electronics Recycling Days.


Single-Stream Recycling Guidelines 
All items listed below are recyclable. Place all rinsed items in ONE recycling bin. 
PAPER

• Blueprints
  
• Books (paperback & hard-back)
  
• All boxes
  
• Corrugated cardboard & brown paper bags
  
• Egg cartons (paper or styrofoam)
  
• File folders
  
• Frozen food, ice cream, & frozen juice containers
  
• Kraft envelopes (orange/brown/yellow)
  
• Mail (opened) & greeting cards
  
• Magazines & brochures
  
• Milk cartons & drink boxes
  
• Newspapers & inserts
  
• Phonebooks
  
• Pizza boxes (must be uncontaminated boxes – any parts of box contaminated with food or grease cannot be recycled and must be thrown in trash)
  
• Ream wrappers
  
• Shredded paper
  
• Stickers & address label sheets
  
• Sticky notes & index cards
  
• Styrofoam or paper to-go containers
  
• Tyvek envelopes
  
• Waxed paper & waxed cardboard
  
• White or pastel office paper

PLASTIC

• 6-pack holders
  
• Bags
  
• Bottles
  
• Boxes
  
• Caps
  
• Jugs
  
• Lids
  
• Plastic numbered 1 through 7
  
• Tubs
  

GLASS

• Bottles
  
• Ceramics
  
• Drinking
  
• Jars
  
• Plates & vases
  
• Mirrors
  
• Pyrex
  
• Window

METAL

• Aerosol cans (empty)
  
• Aluminum foil
  
• Cans
  
• Jar lids
  
• Steel bottle caps
  
• Scrap metal
  

Do NOT place the following items into the recycling bin: 

• batteries
  
• CDs
  
• clothing
  
• dishes
  
• ink jet cartridges
  
• leaves

• light bulbs
  
• major appliances
  
• pizza boxes contaminated by food or grease
  
• tires
  
• toys
  
• trash
  

Items accepted at the Recycling Centers:

• alkaline batteries
  
• clothing
  
• Christmas trees
  
• fluorescent light bulbs
  
• lawn and garden debris
  
• major appliances

• motor oil
  
• refrigerators,dehumidifiers and air conditioners, can be brought to the Scale House at 1 Harborview Avenue for a small freon removal fee
  
• stiff plastic (buckets, toys, etc.)
  

Place in regular household garbage:

• dried latex (water-based) paint
  
• pizza boxes contaminated by food or grease
  

Call a private junk hauler for the following items:

• automotive parts
  
• bathtubs
  
• boilers
  
• construction debris
  
• dirt
  
• furnaces
  
• kitchen cabinets
  
• mattresses
  
• pipes

• property cleanouts
  
• rocks
  
• sand
  
• sawdust
  
• sheetrock
  
• soil
  
• soot
  
• tree stumps
  

Donate/Recycle the following items:

• cell phones – to Keep Stamford Beautiful
  
• clothing – to Goodwill  at the Recycling Center
  
• furniture – to Goodwill  at the Recycling Center
  
• hard and soft cover books – to the Ferguson Library
  
• ink jet cartridges – to office supply stores
  

Other items:

• Fall leaf pickup schedules – check newspaper, www.cityofstamford.org or www.stamfordrecycles.com
  
• Christmas tree pickup schedules – check newspaper or website, or bring to Recycling Center.
  

Source: City of Stamford