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OVERVIEW
CRRA, through its Southwest Division, contracts with Wheelabrator to deliver trash to a 2,250 ton-per-day mass-burn
trash-to-energy facility located in Bridgeport. Other CRRA assets in that region include two landfills (in Shelton and Waterbury, both closed), a regional recycling center and the Garbage Museum, both in Stratford. CRRA provides solid waste disposal and recycling services to 14 Connecticut municipalities in Fairfield and New Haven counties, providing free recycling for all.
TRASH-TO-ENERGY FACILITY
Mass-burn means that there is no front-end separation of recyclable metal or non-combustible material from what is delivered as waste to the facility. Unlike the RDF technology used at the
Mid-Connecticut Project, trash is delivered and burned with no processing. Ash residue from the plant is trucked to Wheelabrator’s ash landfill in Putnam.
The Bridgeport trash-to-energy facility easily exceeds the strictest emissions standards. Click Emissions Performance > Bridgeport Project to view the test results.
REGIONAL RECYCING FACILITY
The Project’s recycling facility, located on Honeyspot Road Extension in Stratford, is operated under contract by FCR. It is adjacent to The Children’s Garbage Museum.
Click Recycling to learn more about CRRA's recycling operations.
TRANSFER STATIONS
The solid waste infrastructure in southwestern Connecticut also includes municipally-owned transfer stations in Greenwich, Norwalk, Westport, Fairfield, Trumbull, Shelton, Milford and Darien, where trash and recyclables are consolidated for transportation to the Bridgeport trash-to-energy plant or Stratford recycling center.
THE CRRA GARBAGE MUSEUM
The CRRA Garbage Museum in Stratford provides educational programs to over 30,000 people each year, teaching about integrated solid waste management with an emphasis on the importance of reducing waste through source reduction, reuse and recycling. Participants come from all over Connecticut and the world. To learn more, click Museum Education.
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