New Recycling Compactor in Service at Transfer Station

Reggie Roy (left) and Deb Guinard (right) help Town Administrator Marj Roy stage an impromptu "grand opening" of the town's new Single Stream Recycling compactor. All recyclables, including glass, go in the compactor, which replaces the open orange dumpsters and the small hoppers for glass. Photo: Charlie Darling — Reggie Roy (left) and Deb Guinard (right) help Town Administrator Marj Roy stage an impromptu “grand opening” of the town’s new Single Stream Recycling compactor. All recyclables, including glass, go in the compactor, which replaces the open orange dumpsters and the small hoppers for glass. Photo: Charlie Darling

The town’s new single-stream recycling compactor was installed at the Transfer Station and ready for use on Wednesday, April 16. The compactor makes it almost as easy to use the recycling bin as it is to use the trash hopper.

Recyclables, including glass, go in the compactor, which replaces the open orange dumpsters and the small hoppers for glass. Plastic bags are not to go in the compactor because they cause problems with the sorting equipment at the recycling center. The following is a guide to accepted and non-accepted items for single-stream recycling.

Stacey Viandier was among the first to use the new single-stream recycling compactor after the ribbon cutting. With the new compactor now in place, watch for the traffic flow at the Transfer Station to be divided into two concentric loops soon -- one loop for pulling up to the trash compactor, the second for pulling up to the SSR compactor. Photo: Charlie Darling — Stacey Viandier was among the first to use the new single-stream recycling compactor after the ribbon cutting. With the new compactor now in place, watch for the traffic flow at the Transfer Station to be divided into two concentric loops soon — one loop for pulling up to the trash compactor, the second for pulling up to the SSR compactor. Photo: Charlie Darling

Materials Accepted

Egg cartons
Cereal, pasta, shoe, and juice boxes
Paper, newspaper, mail, window envelopes
Catalogs, paperback books
Telephone books, brown bags, magazines
Laundry baskets
Plastic containers #1 through #7, including milk jugs, shampoo bottles, bleach and detergent jugs
Printer and copier paper
Glass bottles and jars
Metal, foil, aluminum, pie plates and trays
Steel cans, empty aerosol cans

Materials not accepted include, but are not limited to:

Plastic bags
Food waste
Styrofoam
Paint
Hazardous Waste
Oils
Diapers
Propane tanks
Needles and sharp objects
Pesticide containers
Potato chip bags
Vinyl siding
Bubble wrap
Window glass
Mirrors
Light bulbs
Dishes, Pyrex, ceramics
Foam packaging

If you have questions or need assistance, please see one of the Transfer Station attendants.