Ongoing Waste Transfer Operations

For many years, the centerpiece of MIRA’s Connecticut Solid Waste System “CSWS” has been the Resource Recovery Facility located in Hartford.  However, due to its age, serviceability and reliability, the facility was closed in July 2022 following unsuccessful efforts to redevelop it as mandated by Public Act 14-94.  Since that time MIRA has continued to receive municipal solid waste “MSW” and single stream recycling at its Essex Transfer Station and Torrington Transfer Station.  These two transfer stations are the remaining operating facilities comprising the CSWS.

 

Essex Transfer Station

MSW received at the Essex Transfer Station is consolidated onto transfer trailers and delivered to the privately operated Resource Recovery Facility located in Preston CT. where it is combusted for energy recovery purposes.  Recycling is consolidated onto transfer trailers and delivered to privately operated processing facilities in Willimantic or Berlin where it is sorted, baled and sold to market for incorporation into new consumer products.  Municipalities delivering to the Essex Transfer Station include:

Deep River                            Essex

Old Saybrook                       Chester

Clinton                                  Durham

Middlefield                            Haddam

Killingworth                           Lyme

Westbrook

 

Torrington Transfer Station

MSW received at the Torrington Transfer Station is consolidated onto transfer trailers and delivered to the privately Keystone sanitary landfill in Pennsylvania.  Recycling is consolidated onto transfer trailers and delivered to privately operated processing facilities in Willimantic or Berlin where it is sorted, baled and sold to market for incorporation into new consumer products. Municipalities delivering to the Essex Transfer Station include:

Canaan                                 Colebrook

Cornwall                               Goshen

Middlebury                           North Canaan

Norfolk                                 Barkhamsted

Winsted                               New Hartford

Salisbury                             Sharon

 

Standby Facilities

MIRA transfer stations in Watertown and Ellington, and its recycling facility in Hartford, remain permitted and functional in the event they are needed in response to service disruptions at other Connecticut waste management facilities.