Single Stream Recycling
STARTED JULY 1, 2009
The Tolland Town Council has approved the implementation of Single Stream Recycling effective July 1, 2009. This expansion of our Recycling Program will allow for all recyclable material including plastic containers numbers 1 through 7 to be placed in a blue rolling cart without having to separate out the items. The Town will issue a blue rolling cart, similar to your trash cart, during the month of June. The blue rolling cart will replace your current recycling bin. The standard blue rolling cart to be provided by the Town will be 65 gallons. Recyclables pick-up will continue to take place on your regular collection day.
There is a maximum of two garbage (trash) rolling carts and one recycling cart per household.
Program Details
On Monday, July 2, 2007, Willimantic Waste Paper Company, Inc. (WWP) became the vendor to provide solid waste trash, recyclable and bulky waste/metal collection service for resident households in Tolland. Resident households should use their new blue recycling cart and the green colored rolling cart for trash. Details about the program follow below.
The solid waste or trash collection is an automated service. Automated trash collection is where a truck with a mechanical arm operated by the driver empties the containers, known as rolling carts, into the truck instead of workers lifting the barrels. The driver never leaves the truck.
WWP delivered to each resident household a new green-colored 95-gallon rolling cart for trash during the last three weeks of June 2007, prior to the start of the new automated service. Within each cart were copies of the new collection program regulations. Each rolling cart has been coded specifically to each Tolland household address. The 95-gallon rolling carts are designed to handle the amount of 3 normal-size trash cans or 6 bags of trash. Most studies show that the average family that recycles requires only one 95-gallon rolling cart for weekly trash collection service.
Each residential customer places the rolling cart and recycling cart at the edge of their property (lawn or sidewalk) no more than 18” from the curb or roadside not more than 24 hours in advance of the designated pick up day. Trucks will come by in the morning to dump the rolling cart into the truck for both trash and recycling. Do not place the rolling carts in front of a car, telephone pole, or behind a mailbox. The truck will need direct access to the cart in order for the system to work. The blue recycling cart is to be placed next to the green rolling cart; trash containers will not be emptied unless a recycling cart is also present on recycling pick-up weeks. Please place the carts out on the night before cllection day, not more than 24 hours in advance of the designated pick up day.
Only regular bagged household trash should be placed inside the rolling cart. No construction debris or hazardous waste should be placed inside the rolling cart.
WWP trucks are only equipped to collect what is INSIDE the rolling cart. No trash should be placed outside of the rolling cart. Recyclables should be placed in your recycling cart.
Click here for a Single Stream Recycling printable flyer.