Solid Waste & Recycling

Solid Waste and recycling are picked up curbside on Friday each week. If a holiday falls on or before the scheduled pickup day, service will be 1 day later that week. The schedule is available at Best Sanitation web site.

It is recommended that your solid waste and recycling items be placed at the curb the night before your collection day or no later than 6:00 AM on the collection day to ensure that they will be picked up. Recycling appropriately saves the Town money since we pay lower fees for recycled items than we do for solid waste.
Recycling: In the Tunxis Recycling region, the red or blue round pails or rectangular bins are used to collect all clean food and beverage containers made of glass, metal or plastic #1 or #2.

  • Rinse all containers
  • Put newspaper, magazines, and mixed paper in brown paper bags next to pail or bin
  • Flatten corrugated boxes to about 2′ x 3′, place next to pail or bin
  • Bring to curbside

Mixed Paper: Office paper, stationary and envelopes, including those with plastic windows. Direct Mail pieces - shiny coated paper ok. Place in brown paper bag next to bin.
No: Brown manila envelopes, Overnite envelopes or Tyvek.
No: Giveaway items (Product samples/CDs)
No: Greeting cards or Wrapping paper
No: Boxboard, 6-pack Cartons or Cardboard.
No: Tape, Post-it-notes or Mail with Pressure sensitive labels.

Newspapers and Magazines: Include all paper inserts, place in brown paper bag next to bin. Catalogs & phone books also accepted.
No: Tape Packaging materials, Egg cartons, Cereal, Shoe and Pizza boxes.
No: String or Plastic bags.

Corrugated Cardboard: Folded flat, clean.
No: Yellow-tinted cardboard.

Glass & Juice Cartons: Clean food and beverage containers only. Clear or colored glass bottles & jars. Single-serve containers, pint, quart, and half-gallon juice & milk cartons.
No: Light bulbs, Ceramics, Cookware, Window/mirror glass, Crystal

Metal Cans and Foil: Clean food and beverage containers only. Aluminum foil & foil baking tins.
No: Scrap metal, Appliances, Meatal parts, Pots/pans, Silverware, Needles, Aerosol and Paint cans.

Plastics #1 and #2: Look for the number triangle on bottom.
No: Bottle caps or #1 & #2 Bottles that contained Antifreeze, Motor pil, Pesticides or other Toxic fluids.

Information is available from the Selectman’s office at (860) 868-7881 and the Tunxis Recycling Operating Committee at (860) 585-0419 or (860) 225-9811. One may also use the website at www.brrfoc.org.

Scrap metal may be placed in the container at the Town Garage during business hours.

BULKY WASTE
Bulky waste articles including construction debris, furniture, tires, appliances (including refrigerators and freezers) and electronics may be taken to Albreada Refuse and Sweeping at 14 Iffland Pond Road, Torrington. CL & P offers programs for removal off refrigerators and freezers as well, so checking with them may not only save money but could put money in your pocket. Albreada is located past Blue Seal and Agway on Iffland Pond Road. Fees are charged based on materials brought. Hazardous waste items are not accepted. There will be a Hazardous Waste disposal day scheduled in September. Information will be posted as soon as available. For more information on hours and fees call (860) 482-6799.

The Bristol Resource Recovery Facility contains complete information on solid waste and recycling.