MIRA Unveils Connecticut’s First Landfill Based Solar Array

Please note that the Headquarters of the Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority (MIRA) will be moving.  Effective March 6, 2023, our new address will be:

300 Maxim Road
Hartford, CT 06114

Please note that from March 3, 2023 until the start of business on March 6, 2023 MIRA staff will not have access to e-mail and there may be disruptions to our phone service as we transition to our new offices.

The Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority ("MIRA") submitted a Closure Plan to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection ("DEEP") for its Hartford Waste–to-Energy Facility.  Click here for more information:

MIRA unveiled Connecticut's first landfill-based solar array. Click here more information about this award-winning solar-energy generating facility.

In 2019, MIRA's recycling facility shipped more than 230 tons of aluminum to manufacturers.  Using that recycled aluminum to make new products (as opposed to mining and processing bauxite ore to do so), saves the energy equivalent of about 292,000 gallons of gasoline - enough to drive a 40mpg hybrid car round-trip from Hartford to Los Angeles and back more than 2,000 times.

MIRA's Resource Recovery Facility provides enough electricity to the grid to power more than 35,000 homes.