RESIDENTIAL GUIDE TO WASTE DISPOSAL AND RECYCLING

Mandatory Recycling | Optional Recycling | Household Hazardous Waste

Bulky Waste Items | Holiday Schedule | Annual Leaf Collection | Christmas Tree Pickup

Put the trash dump cart out the night before your collection day or before 6 a.m. on collection day. The ideal location is the left of your driveway when facing the street. Be sure that the dump cart handle faces your house and the can is within 2 feet of the road edge and 3-4 feet from obstructions, such as fences, lamp posts, mail boxes, trees, cars and recycling bins.

Use your dump cart container for regular solid waste, which consists of non-recyclable normal household trash created by a single family. Plastic bags inside the dump cart are recommended. Extra trash left outside your dump cart will not be picked up. Additional dump carts can be ordered for an additional $160/year per cart, or excess trash and recycling can be brought to the MSW area at the landfill. Access to this area requires a "trash add-on" sticker available at the landfill for $20/year.

Do Not overload the dump cart

Do Not dump hot ashes or flammable items in your cart

Do Not dump grass clippings, brush or sand in your cart

Do Not use your cart for paint or other hazardous liquids

Do Not use your cart for glass, metal food containers, newspaper, magazines, corrugated cardboard, plastics #1 & #2, aseptic packaging, motor oil & antifreeze - These are recyclable

When selling your home, leave the dump cart and recycle bin with the house. This is town property, assigned to that residence. If you are moving to a newly constructed home within Suffield, call 668-3838 to have a new trash cart and bin dropped off at that location.

MANDATORY RECYCLING

What to Recycle & How

State mandate requires these items to be recycled. There is a $99.00 fine for non-compliance.

Newspaper, Magazines, and Catalogs: Including all colored inserts or flyers printed on "'newsprint". Put in paper grocery bags and place in recycling bin on top of cans & bottles or next to bin if there is no room in it.

Corrugated Cardboard: Flatten boxes. Cut into pieces 3ft x 3ft. Put in recycling bin or top of cans & bottles or next to bin if no room in it.

Glass Food & Beverage Containers: Clear, brown and green bottles up to 1 gallon in size, rinsed clean, caps, lids and corks removed. Examples: soda, liquor, juice bottles, jam & mason jars. No other glass items.

Metal Food & Beverage Containers: Rinsed clean. Up to 1 gallon in size, metal lids acceptable. Examples: soup, vegetable, juice, and other food cans, cookie tins, dog & cat food cans. No other metal items.

Aluminum Beverage Cans: Rinsed clean, attached tabs acceptable. Do not crush. Examples: soda and beer cans.

Aluminum Foil: Rinsed clean; folded flat, free of other materials. Examples: aluminum foil wrap and take out food trays (clean).

Plastic Containers #1 (PET): Up to three liters in size, rinsed clean, no caps. Do not crush. Examples: soda, juice, cooking oil, and detergent bottles.

Plastic Containers #2 (HDPE): Up to one gallon in size, rinsed clean, no caps. Do not crush. Examples: milk jugs, spring water, laundry detergent, bleach and dish detergent bottles.

Aseptic Packaging: Gable top plastic coated paper containers up to one gallon in size, rinsed clean and crushed, with straws and caps removed. Examples: milk, orange juice containers, small, empty,single serve juice and milk boxes.

Antifreeze & Motor Oil: Place in sealed containers and mark the container “Motor Oil” or “Antifreeze”. Place beside the recycle bin.

What NOT to Recycle: Other glass (light bulbs, window glass, mirrors, drinking glasses, plate glass, auto glass, pyrex, etc.). Other metals (aerosol spray cans, paint cans, pots and pans, coat hangers, toasters, etc.). Plastics #3-#7, bottle caps or lids, toys. Dirty or contaminated newspaper. Waxed, plastic-coated and, non-corrugated cardboard. Junk mail, office paper, telephone books. Ceramics (clay flower pots, tiles, porcelain, dishes, etc.). Biohazards (pizza boxes, paper towels, kleenex, medicine bottles, syringes, hypodermic needles, empty anti-freeze and motor oil containers.

Place recycling bin within 2 feet of the road edge and 3-4 feet from obstructions (including the Dump Cart).

OPTIONAL RECYCLING (MIXED PAPER)

What to Recycle & How

Suffield residents who are interested in expanding their household recycling efforts, can participate in a program that allows users to recycle additional paper products not currently recyclable at curbside. There is no fee to participate in this program.

Junk Mail: Remove plastic window envelopes.

Loose Paper: Writing paper, white or color copy paper, ledger paper, brochures, fax paper, manila folders & envelopes, construction paper, wrapping paper, etc.

Pressed Cardboard: shirt cardboard, gift boxes, cereal boxes, paper towel tubes, and other non-corrugated cardboard.

All mixed paper must be brought to the landfill to be recycled. It can be loose or in paper bags, and should be placed in the special container labeled “Mixed Paper”.

What NOT to Recycle: Post-it notes, carbon paper, paper towels, kleenex, paper cups, envelopes with plastic windows, corrugated cardboard, photographs, plastic bags or other plastics.

Place recycling bin withing 2 feet of the road edge and 3-4 feet from obstructions (including the Dump Cart).

HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE

The following items can be disposed of during Hazardous Waste Collection Day:

Oil based paints, strippers, turpentine, solvents, and preservatives.
Household chemicals, including bleach, ammonia, disinfectants, oven cleaner, toilet bowl and drain cleaners, floor and window cleaners, furniture polish, nail polish and remover, hobby chemicals and glues pharmaceuticals, photographic chemicals.
Lawn and yard chemicals, including pesticides, poisons, fertilizers, and swimming pool chemicals.

Drop off is at the Highway Garage once a year. Call the Landfill or Town Hall for the date, which is usually the first Saturday in April.

What NOT to Bring: Commercial or industrial wastes, gas cylinders, explosives, water reactive materials, PCB's and dioxin, pathological materials and radioactive materials, smoke detectors, latex paint.

To properly dispose of latex paint, open lid and air dry if there is only a small amount of paint inside (1/2" or less). For cans with paint in excess of 1/2", add kitty litter or speedy dry to paint to help speed the drying process. Once the paint is dry, throw the can in your trash cart.

For disposal of fuel tanks/gas cans, compressed gas tanks, call the Landfill at 668-3837.

BULKY WASTE ITEMS

Furniture, TV, mowers, appliances, electronics, mattresses, box springs, construction debris, tires, brush, rocks, logs, stumps, brick, scrap metal, propane tanks, auto parts, and any other non-recyclable glass or metal items. These items can be brought to the landfill on any Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Proof of town residency required. Some items required a fee in order to be accepted.  More information is available on our fees page by clicking HERE.

If you have a question on your trash disposal, call 668-3838 or 668-3837.

HOLIDAY SCHEDULE

Trash pickup will be delayed one day if your pickup day falls on the holiday listed below:

-New Year's Day
-Memorial Day
-July 4th
-Labor Day
-Thanksgiving Day
-Christmas Day

ANNUAL LEAF COLLECTION

The Town's Landfill will accept leaves on Sunday's from 12 noon to 4pm beginning October 19th and running through Sunday November 23rd.

The Landfill will continue to accept leaves during it's normal operating hours on Tuesday's, Thursday's and Saturday's from 8 am to 4pm.

Please empty leaves from bags.

CHRISTMAS TREE PICKUP

Town wide pickup of Christmas trees is provided at no charge. Residents must place trees at the curb for pickup. Call the Selectman’s Office at 668-3838 for the scheduled date.

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