Recycling

Area Household Hazardous Waste Days for Darien Residents

Recycling Tip: What to Do with Downed Branches

Recycling Tip: What to Do with Household Batteries

Recycling Tip: Clothes & Other Textiles (Shoes, Too)

Recycling Tip: Getting Rid of Unwanted Photos

How to Find the Darien Recycling Center on the Web

How to Recycle Books at the Darien Swap Shop

Recycling Tip: Check Out the New Sign at the Recycling Center’s Swap Shop

Follow the Rules to Make Sure Your Christmas Tree Gets Picked Up by DPW

If You’ve Got a New Car, You Can Get a New Permit Sticker for It

Darien DPW Christmas Tree Pickup Schedule

If Your Recyclables Are Picked Up, You Can Still Use the Recycling Center

Quick Recycling Tip: Don’t Recycle Christmas Wreaths

Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day on Saturday, Sept 12, 8 AM to 2 PM

5.62 Tons of Mattresses Recycled in Darien Since June: Recycling Committee

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Seattle Household Hazardous Waste Collection Site

If you can’t wait for Darien’s scheduled household hazardous waste pickup event on June 4 or need to go before or afterward, here’s a list of surrounding communities that will accept hazardous waste from Darien residents. The Darien Department of Public Works just published the list of Household Hazardous Waste Days for communities from Greenwich to Weston, Wilton and Westport, all of which have co-operative agreements with Darien to accept our residents’ hazardous waste. Here’s more information on Darien’s own pickup event. Here’s the schedule of nearby pickups:

Another Quick Recycling Tip in our series:

This year’s winter has been milder than last year’s (so far!), but wet, heavy, snow still takes a toll on trees and other landscaping. Downed branches like these can be recycled at our facility along with other yard waste. Not sure where to take them? Click here. — This announcement comes from the Darien Recycling Center pages on Facebook.

Another Quick Recycling Tip:

A battery is a battery is a battery, right? Wrong. Common household batteries include alkaline, nickel cadmium, lithium ion, nickel metal hydride, small sealed lead acid, silver oxide and zinc-air. Most people don’t know the difference, or what to do with them when they’re used up. In Darien there is no need to: BRING ALL HOUSEHOLD BATTERIES TO THE DARIEN RECYCLING CENTER, where they will be properly disposed of or recycled — look for the blue barrels inside the transfer station building.

Another Quick Recycling Tip in our series:

WANTED – USABLE OR UNUSABLE TEXTILES

There’s no telling how much snow will be dumped on our region this weekend, but one thing is for sure: this is a great time of year to clean out closets and drawers! But before that single sock or ripped t-shirt is tossed in the trash, check out the sign over the USAGAIN BINS at the Darien Recycling Center — many of those “unusable” textiles can be recycled! — This announcement comes from the Darien Recycling Center pages on Facebook. Like that page on Facebook and you can get your tips directly, as soon as they come out, and keep informed on other recycling information.

Another Quick Recycling Tip in our series:

THE SKINNY ON PHOTOS

We all have them, right? Boxes and boxes of old photos that were either not good enough or too plentiful to fill albums.

If it’s time to say good-bye to some of them, should they be trashed or recycled? The answer is: both! Older photos developed using chemicals should be thrown away (or reused in craft projects); digital photos do not require chemicals and can be recycled in single stream. To read more about this and how to tell the difference, click here.

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Another Quick Recycling Tip in our series:

THAT’S US! A new sign posted at our facility lets residents know how to find us on the Internet. Type “Darien Recycling Center” into any browser and a wealth of info comes up including our website and this Facebook page. Please also follow us on Twitter @DarienRecycles! — This announcement comes from the Darien Recycling Center pages on Facebook.

Another Quick Recycling Tip:

NEW SIGNAGE at the Swap Shop relating to BOOKS:

— This announcement comes from the Darien Recycling Center pages on Facebook. Like that page on Facebook and you can get your tips directly, as soon as they come out, and keep informed on other recycling information.

Another Quick Recycling Tip in our series:

NEW SIGNAGE AT THE SWAP SHOP guides residents as to what can and cannot be left there:

The picture with this article shows an example of what Christmas trees the town Department of Public Works will refuse to pick up as DPW crews go around town hauling away others left at the curb. The picture was posted on Facebook by the Darien Recycling Center with this comment:

“Public Works will not pick up trees with bags, netting, stands or lights. Please adhere to these simple guidelines when putting your tree out for pick-up!” Here’s the DPW collection schedule and announcement (as previously published by Darienite.com):

THE FOLLOWING ARE A FEW IMPORTANT REMINDERS:

Christmas Trees must be at the curb by the first morning of the scheduled pick-up. Christmas Tree pick-up is conducted on public streets only.

Another Quick Recycling Tip in our series:

NEW CAR? NO PROBLEM! No need to pull your Darien Recycling Center permit (sticker) off one vehicle and affix it to another. Take the new registration to the Public Works office (2nd floor Town Hall) – within minutes you will have a new sticker for your new car! — an announcement from the Darien Recycling Center’s pages on Facebook, and you can get more from there by liking them on Facebook.

(Originally published Dec. 27)

Here’s the pickup schedule for Christmas trees in Darien, as released by the town Department of Public Works:

THE FOLLOWING ARE A FEW IMPORTANT REMINDERS:

Christmas Trees must be at the curb by the first morning of the scheduled pick-up. Christmas Tree pick-up is conducted on public streets only. Residents are asked to refer to a Town map to determine their designated area for schedule. The schedule has been rotated from last year.

If you get your recycling picked up by a hauler, it only costs $40 for as many as two permit stickers for your cars allowing you to visit the Darien Transfer Station/Recycling Center, where you can recycle a lot more than at curbside, according to the Darien Reycling Center. Here’s their announcement on Facebook:

One New Year’s Resolution that is easy to keep is to recycle more! If you use a local carter to haul away trash and single stream, know that there is much more that can be recycled at the Darien Recycling Center: motor oil, scrap metal, tires, oversized plastics, electronics, textiles, paint, batteries, lightbulbs and yard waste. For info on obtaining a valid permit (sticker) click here.

The latest Quick Recycling Tip in the series:

The Department of Public Works (DPW) has released its annual Christmas tree pick-up schedule with an important reminder not to put wreaths out with trees. Bows and other artificial decorations can easily be removed, but most wreaths are not compostable due to the copious amounts of wire used to hold them together. Many are also flocked (sprayed with paint or glitter). It is therefore recommended that wreaths be disposed of with trash. Here’s the schedule and other reminders about DPW pickups of Christmas trees by the street in front of your home.

Darien residents (not businesses) can drop off household hazardous waste this Saturday, Sept. 12 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Norwalk High School (here’s a map). The collection day is one of several scheduled for the rest of this year and open to residents of Darien, Norwalk, New Canaan, Greenwich, Stamford, Westport, Weston and Wilton. The images in this photo gallery (from the Norwalk and Darien local government websites) have information on what can be dropped off, or see the announcement on the Norwalk city government website (reprinted at bottom):

From the Norwalk city government website:

Household hazardous waste includes items from the following common household areas and will be accepted during specified hazardous waste collection days. Garage: Gasoline, auto care products, oil-based paints or alkyd paints, stains, thinners, spray paints, etc.

An announcement from the Darien Recycling Committee:

Recycling saves natural resources AND it saves taxpayers money! Since the Mattress Recycling Program began in mid-June, 5.62 tons of mattresses have been collected and removed — at no cost to Darien taxpayers. These mattresses would otherwise have been thrown in with municipal solid waste (MSW), for which the town pays roughly $91 a ton to have hauled away. That savings of just over $500 benefits every taxpayer in Darien!

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