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Confused about what can be recycled in CT? There s an app for that
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State and local officials announced the launch of The RecycleCT Wizard app at the West Hartford Yard Waste and Recycling Center on July 14, 2021.Contributed photo / Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
Residents should have an even easier time figuring out what can go in their recycling bins with the launch of a new free app Wednesday.
The RecycleCT Wizard app builds on the website with the same name and is expected to double the number of inquiries by making the search engine more accessible. The app now makes the search option available on mobile devices and adds French, simplified Chinese and Portuguese to the available languages. English and Spanish are available on both.
For CT s environmental agency, Zoom was the real hero of the pandemic
Jan Ellen Spiegel, CTMirror.org
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Katie Dykes, commissioner of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, on one of many recent Zoom calls.CTMirror.org
Katie Dykes, Connecticut’s commissioner of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, can tell you precisely how much time she’s spent on Zoom meetings since the pandemic stay-at-home orders were issued in March 2020.
“A lot. A lot.” And then she laughs a lot.
It became a common sight Dykes Zooming away in what in normal times was her three kids’ playroom that she’d co-opted as a home office.
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Cloe Poisson
Steam billows from a tall stack near the power block facility at the MIRA trash-to-energy facility in Hartford’s South Meadows.
Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) officials speak of a sense of urgency in addressing the looming waste crisis when the Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority (MIRA) shuts down the Hartford trash incineration next July. For some reason Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride comes to mind, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Thomas Swarr
A 2007 report warned that “Connecticut’s system will likely devolve from one that has been largely self-sustaining to one that is increasingly dependent on facilities and programs outside the state.” Here we are 14 years later and waiting for “someone” to propose a solution for the future.