The Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority (MIRA) has built the first landfill-based solar energy-generating facility in Connecticut atop the capped Hartford Landfill. On Thursday, September 4, 2014, MIRA celebrated the grand opening of this award-winning facility, which will generate up to one megawatt of electricity, enough to power about 1,000 homes when operating at full capacity.
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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.
