1.       CRRA receives and processes over 500 tons of containers and paper a day for recycling at its two regional recycling centers.

2.       The garbage from 110 of Connecticut's cities and towns is delivered to CRRA's four trash-to-energy plants.

3.       The garbage is fuel for boilers that steam, which is used to generate electricity.

4.       CRRA's four trash-to-energy plants produce enough electricity to provide for all the electrical needs of about 170,000 homes.

5.       CRRA generates about 630 million kilowatt hours of electrical energy per year using trash, which is a renewable fuel. Since CRRA's fourth trash-to-energy plant came on line in 1992, CRRA has saved more than 32 million barrels of oil. The trash-to-energy method of generating electricity is the cleanest, most heavily regulated combustion technology used for generating power.

6.       Electric revenues benefit CRRA member cities and towns by helping to minimize trash disposal fees.

7.       CRRA also generates electricity at its Hartford landfill by burning gas captured from the solid waste section of the landfill. This gas powers as many as 1,500 to 2,000 homes.

8.       CRRA processes about two million tons of trash a year. This reduces the volume of what needs to be buried in sanitary landfills by about 90 percent, meaning our landfills will last longer.

9.       Since 1999, CRRA has collected for recycling more than 1.7 million pounds of used electronics material. This kept lead, cadmium and other heavy metals out of the waste stream, thus protecting the air, ground and water.

10.    Our education centers teach more than 40,000 visitors per year the importance of reducing our waste and ways to accomplish this through source reduction, reusing and recycling.

11.    In 2002, the National Recycling Coalition awarded the prestigious Beth Brown Boettner Award for outstanding public education to CRRA for the CRRA Visitors Center & Trash Museum and The Children's Garbage Museum.