A recent presentation on plasma arc by one of the field's leading experts, Louis J. Circeo of Georgia Tech may offer a solution to Greater Hartford’s landfill problem. Plasma arc is an emerging technology that can zap garbage with so much heat that mountains of trash turn into piles of pebbles (and you can reuse the pebbles). There's no ash, no emission and no pollution. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: March 19, 2006
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This article describes the Hartford Landfill. The landfill, operated under contract by the Metropolitan District, is actually two landfills – a double-lined ash disposal area and the main disposal area, which receives process residue and other bulky and non-processible waste. The main disposal area features a landfill gas collection system, which captures the methane created by decomposing waste and burns it to generate electricity, and a leachate control system. The City of Hartford opened the landfill on Leibert Road in the North Meadows for use as an open-burning dump in 1940. Published by Northend Agent's
; Publication Date: January 07, 2008
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The Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority, which operated and is now closing the landfill, has proposed a solar installation on part of the 35 acres in the northeast corner of the dump near the Connecticut River dike, the last part of the 96-acre facility to be closed. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: April 13, 2011
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This Hartford Courant editorial expresses the opinion that the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority's proposal to continue dumping on the eastern slope of its landfill in the North Meadows section of Hartford appears to offer the agency and its 70 member towns some significant economic savings without a negative impact. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: December 27, 2006
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Officials of several towns that have an agreement with the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority met recently to explore alternatives to their dependence on the agency. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: June 14, 2008
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One environmental group in Hartford is demanding the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority shut down part of its last garbage-burning plant, accusing it of contributing to the city's sickeningly high (41 percent) rate of childhood asthma. A 2009 state report showed Hartford children age 4 and younger had higher rates of emergency room asthma diagnoses than for any other Connecticut city. Published by The Hartford Advocate
; Publication Date: August 22, 2011
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Mayor Eddie A. Perez wants Hartford to turn its recyclables into cash. Perez announced a pilot recycling program recently that allows city residents to earn cash coupons by recycling their household waste. The coupons would be redeemable at nearly 300 national chains — Staples, Dick's Sporting Goods and CVS Pharmacy, to name a few — as well as a developing list of local businesses. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: March 18, 2008
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The City of Hartford is testing the effectiveness of a community recycling program designed to help both the city and its residents save money. A year-long pilot program that began in May with RecycleBank, a four-year-old New York company, serves 4,500 Hartford residents. If it is deemed a success, it could be put in place throughout the city, potentially reducing the $2.4 million the city now spends on waste management. Published by The Hartford Business Journal
; Publication Date: November 10, 2008
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The Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority and the city are close to resolving a longstanding dispute about who will pay the $35.5 million needed to close and then monitor the agency's landfill in Hartford's North Meadows. The agreement - details of which have not been disclosed as it is still being finalized - would unify the city and CRRA in efforts to secure state permits to keep the landfill open until 2008 and state money to close it. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: January 24, 2007
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The state's major regional trash agency is girding for a fight to build an ash landfill in the plush, old woodlands of Franklin, but Connecticut's garbage woes go beyond fervent local opposition to another dump. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: July 23, 2009
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The Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority is putting in a six-acre array of solar panels on a section of its Hartford landfill. The solar project coincides with the authority's plan to cap the remaining 35-acre section of the landfill. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: June 07, 2013
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Connecticut trash authority officials are heralding a new generation of recycling. The Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority recently approved spending $3 million to retrofit its regional recycling operation in Hartford to allow for "single-stream recycling deliveries." Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: July 07, 2008
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The state's largest trash agency said recently that it has suspended indefinitely plans to develop an ash landfill in the eastern Connecticut town of Franklin, or anyplace else in the state. The Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority's proposal to develop a 90- to 100-acre landfill surrounded by a 400-acre buffer zone has faced strong opposition. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: August 28, 2009
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The state's largest trash agency will proceed with plans to build an ash landfill in Franklin despite opposition from area residents, environmental groups, legislators and the governor. Officials of the ratepayer-supported Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority said recently that although the agency will continue to look for alternate sites, tests have confirmed that the Shetucket River area of Franklin, near the border with Windham, is the best available site in Connecticut. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: August 25, 2009
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North Meadows residents don't want to expand the landfill, which is the first thing travelers on I-91 see when entering Hartford. The mayor has yet to weigh in. Published by The Hartford Advocate
; Publication Date: May 13, 2004
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The author of this opinion piece suggests that the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection should not locate ash dumps on Connecticut Rivers. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: May 24, 2009
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Mike McGarry's column for "The Hartford News" reviews a report from Councilman Bob Painter's office researching alternative solutions to Hartford's landfill issue.
Publication Date: May 19, 2004
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The regional trash authority and the city have released the details of an agreement that could resolve a longstanding dispute over who will pay the $35.5 million needed to close and then monitor the authority's landfill in Hartford's North Meadows. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: February 8, 2007
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The political opposition to an ash landfill on the Shetucket River in Franklin proved too much for the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority, which announced recently that it would remove the site from consideration. The state's trash authority said it would consider disposing of ash at other landfills, both in and out of state. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: August 31, 2009
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In this opinion piece, the author suggests that the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority proposal to build an ash landfill in Franklin, CT. is misguided and will pollute a pristine area of the state. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: March 22, 2009
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More than 100 acres of land is about to become available in Hartford's North Meadows. The infamous Hartford landfill will finally be capped. What Hartford needs is a facility on the landfill that creates jobs and commerce. The perfect fit for this difficult-to-build-on site is a modern greenhouse facility. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: July 26, 2009
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Across Connecticut, more towns are starting to make use of their landfills. A closed landfill might seem like a permanent eyesore, a toxic Chernobyl tucked away in nearly every city or town, big or small. But many towns are finding that to be far from the case. There are limitations to what a community can do, depending on the size and shape of a landfill, but testing has shown that parks, playing fields and golf courses built on top of old landfills are safe. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: July 8, 2007
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The closing of the regional landfill in Hartford's North Meadows opens up new horizons for passive recreation at the site. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: March 23, 2009
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With the Hartford landfill closed, and trash still arriving at the rate of 800,000 tons annually at its trash-to-energy incinerator in Hartford, the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority was counting on building a new ash landfill in Franklin. After protests, CRRA, a quasi-public agency, announced it was suspending its efforts to put a landfill on the 400-acre sand-and-gravel operation in Franklin on the banks of the Shetucket River. Published by The Hartford Advocate
; Publication Date: September 08, 2009
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The Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority Visitors Center & Trash Museum in Hartford opened its doors recently in honor of "America Recycles Day." There's plenty of garbage on display at the Trash Museum. A free-standing, walk-through sculpture called the "Temple of Trash" bears a thick skin of colorful refuse that once was the stuff of somebody's life - a fuzzy red die, wood tennis rackets, Cheerios boxes and Butterfinger wrappers, a bottle of Newman's Own Venetian Spaghetti Sauce and a bottle of Frank Sinatra's Milanese Sugo di Tavola. But the museum is less a forum for displaying artifacts than it is an elaborate learning laboratory where visitors, usually school children on field trips, can learn about the universe of trash and the ways people manage it - or should. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: November 12, 2006
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In this editorial, the Courant staff write that the tentative agreement between Mayor Eddie A. Perez and the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority over who will assume responsibility for the closing and monitoring of the hideous landfill in Hartford's North Meadows is welcome and significant. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: January 29, 2007
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The Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority insists its plan to dump ash from its trash incinerators at a site in Franklin is safe, but a group of residents and lawmakers wants to torpedo the project before it can get off the ground. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: February 14, 2009
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About 30 protesters gathered outside the gates of the Connecticut Resources Recovery Agency's trash-to-energy plant in Hartford's South Meadows recently to warn that they're ready to fight any attempt to increase the plant's capacity. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: June 12, 2007
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The view from the top of the dump that towers over Hartford's North Meadows is spectacular. The landfill closed on December 31, 2008, and the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority, which began leasing the dump from the city in 1982, took in its last truckloads of trash. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: December 31, 2008
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For over 60 years, the Hartford landfill has been greeting visitors from the north with a slap in the face. However, now that it is closed, many positive possibilities for recreation and beauty present themselves. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: May 12, 2009
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One the Hartford region's most visible landmarks saw the last dump trucks climbing its slopes on Wednesday, January 7, 2009. CRRA Chairman Michael A. Pace and CRRA President Thomas D. Kirk, City of Hartford Manager Lee Erdmann and Public Works Director Clarence Corbin and State Representative and Deputy Speaker Marie Lopez Kirkley-Bey (D-Hartford) formally commemorated the closing of Hartford’s North Meadows landfill at noon that day near its snowy summit. Published by Northend Agent's
; Publication Date: January 07, 2009
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The Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority is mishandling the bidding process for a lucrative 5- to 10-year contract to run its trash-to-energy plant in Hartford, the Metropolitan District Commission says in a new lawsuit. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: December 09, 2010
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Mike McGarry comments on a recent discussion on the future of the North Meadows landfill, “Life After Landfill,” which was held recently at the Hartford Public Library. Published by The Hartford News
; Publication Date: November 1 - 8, 2006
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This Courant editorial comments on the plans that Hartford and the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority have for closing the regional landfill in city's North Meadows by December 2008. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: October 17, 2007
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Opponents of a plan to create an ash dump in Franklin are closely watching Gov. M. Jodi Rell's office, hoping she will sign legislation that blocks the project. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: June 18, 2009
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In addition to trying to attract much-needed jobs, Hartford is now trying to attract convention business. City and state officials have to be thinking all the time about ways to sell the city. Part of that thinking should include improving the gateways. The northern gateway along I-91 is bounded by the Hartford Landfill, one of the biggest highway eyesores. It is scheduled to close sometime in 2008. Then there'll be a "post-closure" plan to do something, possibly turn it into a park with hiking and birding trails, something that's been done with other landfills. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: January 15, 2006
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Landfills might be a thing of the past, but the state is riddled with hundreds of old dumps. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: July 05, 2009
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In this editorial, the Courant staff express the opinion that recycling isn't just good environmentalism. Reducing waste that would otherwise have to be sorted, sifted and incinerated at the state's waste-to-energy facilities or else shipped to out-of-state landfills is good economics, too. By expanding the bottle bill to noncarbonated beverages, the General Assembly would be taking a relatively simple, effective and quick step to reduce waste and litter. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: January 8, 2007
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Connecticut will have to almost double its recycling rate - from 30 percent to 58 percent - just to keep up with increasing amounts of waste and changing lifestyles over the next 20 years. That ambitious goal is the cornerstone of a new Solid Waste Management Plan released recently by the state Department of Environmental Protection. The plan - the first significant amendment to the state's basic waste management plan in 15 years - is the result of a year of study by state environmental officials after lengthy consultations with consumer groups, town governments and industry groups. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: December 29, 2006
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Gov. M. Jodi Rell vetoed a bill recently that would ban construction of a controversial ash disposal site in the New London County town of Franklin. She said the state's siting council, rather than the General Assembly, should decide where and when landfills should be established around the state. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: June 24, 2009
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Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal recently raised the ante in a campaign by residents and lawmakers in southeastern Connecticut to stop the state's trash agency from putting an ash landfill in Franklin, near the Shetucket River. Rell, in a letter to the Connecticut Resource Recovery Authority president, repeated her "deep reservations" about use of the Franklin land. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: August 27, 2009
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Dr. Robert Painter has decided he won’t be seeking a third term on Hartford City Council, thus ending one of the most improbable and unique political careers in Hartford history. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: June 20 - 27, 2007
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Perhaps the best view in Hartford sits atop a pile of garbage. From atop the closed 80-acre landfill between the Connecticut River and I-91 on Hartford’s north side, the views stretch out in all directions. But anyone hoping to turn a profit from this desirable view property had better start bending the ears of Hartford city officials now, because they are leaning another way. Published by The Hartford Business Journal
; Publication Date: April 11, 2011
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The author of this opinion piece contends that the toxic ash landfill proposed by the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority for Franklin, CT. would save money for Connecticut municipalities while supporting responsible environmental policy. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: March 22, 2009
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Recycling could get a boost if the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection proposes an aggressive long-term strategy aimed at bringing our recycling rate to 49 percent by 2024. The plan would increase enforcement, create incentives such as pay-as-you-throw increase the bottle deposit, and require more items, such as restaurant food scraps, to be recycled or composted. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: September 1, 2006
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City Council member Bob Painter is nearly alone in his embrace of a new technology to get rid of garbage, but he remains convinced the plasma arc is the future of trash disposal. Published by The Hartford Advocate
; Publication Date: September 13
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The State Bond Commission is expected to approve $3 million in funding to shut down the Hartford landfill in the North Meadows. The funding marks the first installment of $15 million that Gov. M. Jodi Rell included in last year's budget to help defray landfill closing costs — part of a February 2007 agreement between the state, city of Hartford and regional trash authority to close and monitor the landfill, which is near capacity. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: February 21, 2008
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Dozens of contracts between individual towns and the state's regional trash giant are expiring in the next two years, and a group representing a swath of communities from Hartford to the Litchfield Hills will take the first step next week to form its own solid-waste authority. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: November 15, 2009
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The state's trash authority has approved a 25 percent increase in the fees that 70 towns and cities must pay for disposal of trash. The Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority approved the increase recently. A spokesman says the increase is needed by the CRRA to close its Hartford landfill and ship waste out of state. However, a lawyer representing the towns says the increase seems like retaliation against the towns that had successfully sued the CRRA.
Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: February 22, 2008
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A spokesman for Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority, the quasi-public agency that controls the fate of much of Connecticut’s waste products, seemed puzzled at the response to the proposed change to Hartford recycling facilities. Currently, CRRA owns two recycling centers in the south of Hartford. They have applied for a license from the state Department of Environmental Protection to merge the two facilities, which would increase the amount of materials they are able to recycle, and reportedly increase the overall daily recycling capacity. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: January 11, 2007
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It may be trash to most folks, but to those in the waste business, people's garbage is a valuable commodity. And that's why there's a bidding war growing for the estimated 750,000 tons of garbage that 70 towns and cities pay more than $51 million a year to burn at a trash-to-energy plant in Hartford. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: July 23, 2010
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The Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority's Mid-Connecticut Project is a cavernous trash-to-energy plant in Hartford's South Meadows. It is one of six trash-to-energy facilities in the state trying to extract some good out of our disposable culture's habits. Pulled along on two conveyors, the 830,000 tons of trash dumped here annually is separated for metals, recyclables and non-burnable waste, with the rest shredded into 6-inch pieces that get burned to make energy. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: August 14, 2006
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Visiting the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority's Trash Museum on Murphy Road in Hartford, can be a nostalgic experience, remembering when vinyl records were played on phonographs and all our trash was collected and plowed into a giant hole at the town dump. Recycling was not in the daily vocabulary back then. When CRRA opened its first recycling plant in Hartford in 1993, officials realized that the key to selling the concept was in education, and the Trash Museum was born. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: December 26, 2009
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Concerned Hartford residents and other interested parties recently gathered at the Hartford Public Library for Life After Landfill, a workshop regarding the North Meadows landfill’s closure and post-closure issues. The landfill is set to close by the end of 2008, but it’s still unclear who will foot the bill for the closing, what will be become of the land and just what lies at the bottom of the dump. Life After Landfill was a brainstorming session: We have this giant pile of waste; after we cover it up, what do we want to do with it? Published by The Hartford Advocate
; Publication Date: November 2, 2006
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Peter Egan, director of environmental affairs and development for the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority, stood at the eastern edge of Hartford's North Meadows landfill recently, enjoying the view from the top. Mayor Eddie Perez and Hartford's City Council have begun to ponder what to do with the landmark in the North End that was for so many years an affront to the senses. Councilman Luis Cotto is heading a task force discussing whether the land should be devoted to hiking trails, greenhouses or a venue for outdoor concerts, among other ideas. Published by The Hartford Advocate
; Publication Date: June 09, 2009
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This article gives a short history of the area of the current Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority landfill in north Hartford. Published by The Hartford Courant
; Publication Date: July 16, 2008
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After more than 20 years, the contracts 70 towns have with Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority to handle their trash are expiring late in 2012. It’s a watershed moment for CRRA, which has processed more than $1 billion worth of trash in those 20-plus years, burning waste to create electricity, according to Lyle Wray, executive director of the Capital Region Council of Governments. Published by The Hartford Advocate
; Publication Date: May 25, 2010
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