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OVERVIEW
The Bridgeport Project consists of a 2,250 ton-per-day mass-burn
trash-to-energy facility, eight transfer stations, two landfills, a regional recycling center and the Children’s Garbage Museum. The Bridgeport Project provides solid waste disposal and recycling services to 20 Connecticut municipalities in Fairfield and New Haven counties.
The Bridgeport Project has undergone an impressive turnaround, with dramatically lower disposal fees and robust deliveries that have nearly doubled. For years the Project’s high disposal fees were driving waste away, which caused fees to spiral even higher. The current disposal fee of $72.50 per ton is a far cry from the $89.50 fee towns paid a few years ago. And it includes extraordinary transportation services for many towns and free recycling for all.
The Bridgeport Project’s turnaround has been a huge public success. Efforts by local officials, the representatives of the Greater Bridgeport Solid Waste Advisory Board (SWAB) and CRRA have led directly to the market-competitive fees the towns enjoy today.
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. Bridgeport Resco, a subsidiary of Wheelabrator Technologies Inc., operates the
trash-to-energy plant, which is located at 6 Howard Avenue in Bridgeport. Ash residue from the plant is trucked to Wheelabrator’s ash landfill in Putnam.
The Bridgeport Project 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 Bridgeport Project also has municipally-owned transfer stations in Greenwich, Norwalk, Fairfield, Trumbull, Shelton, Milford, Darien and Bridgeport. At these transfer stations waste from member towns is consolidated for transportation to Bridgeport by Enviro Systems.
THE CRRA GARBAGE MUSEUM
The CRRA Garbage Museum in Stratford educates over 20,000 visitors each year on integrated solid waste management with an emphasis on the importance of reducing waste through source reduction, reuse and recycling. Many residents of the Bridgeport Project become motivated to recycle and learn how to recycle at the museum. Visitors come from all over Connecticut and the world. To learn more, click Museum Education.
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