Hear A Knock On Your Door? It Might Be The City Of Middletown

MIDDLETOWN, CT – If you hear a knock on your door, it might be the city of Middletown.

The city of Middletown will be canvassing in the City Sanitation District to explain the new phase of the Save As You Throw Trash and Food Scrap Co-Collection Program.

Volunteers from the Public Works Department will visit neighborhoods on weekdays between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. and on the weekends between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

The city of Middletown ran a pilot program sponsored by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection’s Sustainable Materials Management Grant program to develop and provide an economically sustainable system to manage their waste and address Connecticut’s solid waste disposal capacity issues.

Food waste previously included in the trash bin will now be collected in a green bag. The green bags and the official city Save-as-you-throw orange bags will be placed in the curbside trash collection carts. The bags will then be taken to a sorting line where they will be separated, with the trash going to a standard disposal location and the green bags going to the anaerobic digester, which produces renewable energy from organic waste.

Sanitation District customers using carts receive a reduction in their bill, and the cost of disposal of their trash is incorporated into the price of the official city bags. This way, the less they throw away, the more they save.

Residents are encouraged to recycle right, divert materials from the trash if options exist, and purchase less packaging.

Questions should be directed to the Public Works Office Recycling Division at 860-638-4855.