Trash, recyclables, bulky waste and scrap metal are collected on a weekly schedule.  Please separate each category into groups and place at the curb on your collection day.

Residents are reminded to place only the City issued trash cart(s) at curbside.  All trash bags must be placed inside the cart and the lid must be closed.  Trash bags placed on the side of cart will not be picked up.  Please remove emptied containers, from the curb, by the end of your collection day.  Warning letters and fines will be issued to violators.

Residents can purchase an additional trash cart for $70.00.  Recycling containers are free.

The following is a summary of Hartford’s waste & recycling guidelines:

TRASH TIME:  Please place your trash, recyclables, & bulky waste at the curb for pick-up after 4:00 p.m. on the day before or by 7:00 a.m. on your assigned collection day.

HOLIDAY SCHEDULE REMINDER:

When a holiday or observance of a holiday falls on a Monday through Friday, regular waste and recycling collection will be delayed by one day for that week.  There will also be a pick-up on Saturday during each holiday week.

The City of Hartford collects the following items:

Recyclables:  Place only these items in your recycling bin(s); newspapers, corrugated cardboard, magazines & catalogs, glass food and drink containers, plastic food & laundry containers (PETE 1 & HDPE 2 only), drink boxes & milk/juice cartons, and aluminum and metal food or drink containers.  Cardboard boxes must be flattened and tied with string.  Newspapers and magazines can go into a brown paper bag or tie with string, and all containers must be emptied, cleaned and uncrushed.

Bulky Waste (examples):  Box springs & mattresses, upholstered furniture, lumber, wood, branches, rugs and carpets.  All wood and branches must be bundled and tied with strings; rugs and carpets must be folded and tied with strings.  Residents may also use the drop-off containers at the CRRA Hartford Landfill at 180 Leibert Road (off Jennings Road) for scrap Metal and bulky waste only; garbage will not be accepted at the landfill.

Scrap Metal (examples):  Major and small appliances, refrigerators (remove doors), tire rims, lawn mowers, metal bed frames.

Waste Motor Oil and Automotive Batteries:  Drop-off items only at the Public Works Yard, 40 Jennings Road.

Household Hazardous Waste:  Hartford residents may bring their household hazardous waste to the specified MDC Household HazWaste Collection sites in the City or to any MDC sponsored collection day in participating towns.  Residents can call the City’s HAZWASTE Coordinator at 543-8609 to request an information packet or the MDC’s HAZWASTE line at 278-3809.

Phone Book Recycling:  Make room for your new phone directories by recycling your old ones.  Curbside collection and Drop off begins in March and ends mid-May.  Hartford’s residents can bring phone books to DPW Yard at 40 Jennings Road & 75 Laurel Street.   Put only phone books into the SNET Recycling Containers located in the parking areas.  To check for the SNET phone book recycling location nearest you, look in the “Customer Service Guide” section of the SNET phone book or call the Hartford Recycling Center or SNET at 1-800-235-4377.

Grass:  “Don’t Trash the Grass!” Leave grass clippings on the lawn.  Use mulching lawn mower.  (State Law, effective October 1, 1998, grass cannot be collected at curbside).

Spring Leaf Collection:  Curbside and drop-off for paper leaf bags only.

Fall Leaf Collection: Pile loose leaves at curbside for pick-up or place leaves in biodegradable paper leaf bags for pick-up at curb or for drop-off at DPW yard.