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 at 203-977-4117 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.
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
