City Partners With Winters Bros. For 'Clean City Danbury Day'

From Winters Bros. Waste Systems:

Winters Bros. Waste Systems is proud to be partnering with the City of Danbury for the annual Clean City Danbury Day on Saturday, May 7 from 8 a.m. to noon. The event is an annual cleanup program with local citizens and businesses teaming up to help clean streets, neighborhoods, parks and waterways. Winters Bros. will supply free hauling and disposal for waste material collected during the massive community cleanup.

Winters Bros. will also provide a free, one-day paper, confidential, shredding program for Danbury residents. Residents can bring their sensitive documents that require shredding to the Winters Bros. Recycling Center at 307 White St.

“We are honored to help the City and provide disposal services for the waste and recyclables that are collected during the cleanup day,” said Ryan Bingham, division manager of Connecticut operations for Winters Bros. Waste Systems. “This one-day, annual event is a great way to rally hundreds of volunteers across the city and make Danbury shine.”

Participants will help with park beautification, roadway and creek cleanups, lot cleanups and more. Specific opportunities for people to participate in the Clean City Danbury Day include building or joining a team to pick up litter in a neighborhood, park or waterway, volunteering at a special designated dumpster location to assist residents and cleaning up abandoned property or lots of debris and unwanted items and disposing of unwanted items at any one of five dumpster sites.

Citizens interested in participating in or learning more about the 2016 Clean City Danbury Day can visit the City of Danbury’s website.

“This is the 13th year for the Clean City Danbury program,” said Danbury Mayor Mark D. Boughton. “The community cleanup program has grown each year and is an opportunity for Danbury residents, organizations and community groups to do their part to make the city clean and green. We appreciate the generous donation of services provided by Winters Bros. Waste Services as we work together to beautify Danbury.”

The free disposal at the drop off centers and the free waste shredding are available to Danbury residents and residential property owners. Dumpsters will be located at five locations: City Hall (155 Deer Hill Avenue), Rogers Park (by tennis courts), WCSU West Side Campus (43 Lake Ave. exit), Public Works Building (53 Newtown Rd.) and P.A.L. Building (35 Hayestown Rd.).

No commercial waste or commercial vehicles will be allowed to dump for free. Additionally, Winters Bros. cannot accept the following items at the drop off centers: electronics (take electronics to the free, year-round electronic dro off center at Winters Bros. Recycling Center, 307 White St.), hazardous wastes (the city sponsors a Hazardous Waste Day in September), grass clippings or yard debris and construction debris.

Scrap metal and tires can be brought to the dumpster locations, but they cannot be placed into the roll off containers with the regular trash. Appliances that contain Freon (refrigerators and air-conditioning units) must be kept separate from other garbage.

“Winters Bros. has a long tradition of supporting the communities we serve,” said Joe Winters, CEO of Winters Bros. Waste Systems. “Our headquarters are in Danbury and we appreciate the support that Danbury shows to its residents and corporate citizens. As one of the premier solid waste and recycling companies in Connecticut, we are proud to call Danbury our home and look forward to a successful event with the City.”

Winters Bros Waste Systems provides a full range of solid waste and recycling services to commercial, residential, industrial and municipal customers in western Connecticut and the Lower Hudson Valley of New York. The company has a long and successful history in the solid waste and recycling business dating back to the 1950s. Winters Bros. employees 500 people.