Trash Plant Breakdown May Cause Higher Fees for Ellington

The Ellington Public Works Director is calling on all Ellington residents to review proper practices when disposing of household trash and recyclables in order to prevent addtional charges from MIRA, the disposal facility in Hartford which will be off line until sometime in February. Director Timothy Webb's letter to Ellington residents:

Dear Ellington Residents:

As you may have heard via news articles in the papers and news reports on television, the trash
and recycling disposal facility in Hartford operated by MIRA, (Materials Innovation and
Recycling Authority) has experienced some problems with their operation for burning the trash
delivered to their facility. This situation is due to the turbines used to burn the trash having under
gone mechanical failures.
Although through strong efforts by MIRA, it appears the turbines will not be up and running until
early February. As you may have read or know, we are one of the communities that sends our
trash to the facility in Hartford. All trash that is delivered is now being shipped out of State with
the increased cost of doing so being passed back to the communities that send their trash there.
On order to continue to deliver our recycling and trash to Hartford via our contractor, All
American Waste without any additional fees, the Public Works Department is asking all
residents to be proactive in their disposal practices and be diligent in how you recycle and fill
your trash containers.
Noted below is an email received today from MIRA informing all contractors that deliver material
to the Hartford facility that their loads will be inspected and if deemed contaminated, those loads
will not be accepted. This in turn will cause our contractor to clean the load of contamination and
those charges will be born upon the Town.
The Ellington Public Works Department is requesting all of its residents to support proper
disposal practices when disposing of household trash and recyclables.
If you have any questions, please contact the Public Works Office at 860-870-3140.

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