Town Services

The mission of the Highway and Grounds Department is the construction and maintenance of the town roadways, parks, and Westwoods Golf Course. These duties include seasonal maintenance such as plowing snow, leaf collection, and highway and park construction. This department also handles waste collection, recycling and tree maintenance.

For information on Highway & Grounds Department Updates or Bulky Waste Collection information, Click Here

Contacts
General Office Information
Trash/Recyclable Pickups
Recycling
What Can I Recycle at the Curb?

Where can I recycle Electronics (e-Waste)?
What Else Can I Recycle?
Dry Cleaning Bags and Hangers
Tunxis Mead Compost Area
Household Hazardous Waste Disposal
Other Companies Licensed to Dispose of Other Materials
Bulky Waste Collection Information or Other Highway & Grounds Updates

Contacts

General Office Information

Farmington Highway and Grounds
544 New Britain Ave.
Farmington, CT 06032

Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m
Phone: (860) 675-2550  
Fax:  (860) 674-1076

Trash/Recyclable Pickups

If you have any questions or concerns regarding your normal trash and/or recyclables NOT BEING PICKED UP on your regularly scheduled day, please call Highway & Grounds @ 860-675-2550.

HOLIDAY SCHEDULE:

Please note:  The ONLY three (3) Holidays observed for Trash & Recycling picked up by the Town's Contractor (Waste Material Trucking Company) are:  Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day.  If your normal pick-up day falls on one of these 3 Holidays, then your pick-up day will be delayed by one (1) day, starting with the holiday.  (example: Thursday, Thanksgiving Day pickup will be on Friday; Friday's pickup will be on Saturday).

Recycling

There are two curb-side recycling programs in the Town of Farmington that, between them both, provide service to most of Farmington's residents: The Town's collection program provided by Waste Material Trucking and CWPM Services' program. The Town's program provides service to most of the single family residences in town, while CWPM Services covers most of the multi-family residences that offer curb-side collection.

What Can I Recycle at the Curb?

Please See CRRA's Web Site for details

 Electronics Recycling (e-Waste)?

As of 7/1/10, the State of Connecticut mandated recycling of electronics known as "Covered Electronic Devices" or CED's.  Televisions, computers (desktop or laptop), monitors, keyboards, and printers MUST be recycled.  Each year, the Town of Farmington in conjunction with the Farmington Booster Club hosts an Electronic Recycling day which is normally held the same day as the Hazardous Waste Collection.  

E-waste is anything that has a battery or a power plug and is no longer wanted.  For more information regarding e-Waste, please visit the State of Connecticut's website: 

www.ct.gov/DEEP/e-waste

You may also bring your electronics directly to Green Monster ecycling located at 150 Brook Street, West Hartford.  Please call 860-816-2281 or visit their website at: 

www.GMEcycling.com

Or you may bring your electronics to a local Best Buy store for recycling.  Please visit their website: 

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/null/Recycling-Electronics/pcmcat149900050025.c?id=pcmcat149900050025&searchresults=1&searchterm=electronics+recycling

 What Else Can I Recycle?

While curb-side recycling may be the most convenient way to recycle. It certainly isn't the only way. Below is a list of some locations where you can recycle items not accepted in your curb-side recycling program. Remember, these items can only be recycled at specially designated locations, and should not be included in your recycling bin

• Plastic Grocery Bags
  Plastic Grocery Bags can be returned to the Stop & Shop in Unionville. A collection container is located outside of the building near the entrance. Please only use this container for plastic grocery bags. Other plastic bags may be made from other, nonrecyclable, materials.
• Rechargable Nickel-Cadmium Batteries
  Nickel-Cadmium battery packs are commonly used in rechargable appliances, laptop computers and cellular phones. While these batteries are rechargable, they will eventually wear out. The worn battery can be taken to a local Radio Shack (West Farms Mall).
• Telephone Books
  For residents not on the Town's trash/recycling pickup, there is a small telephone book recycling container located at the Staples House parking lot (next to the Main Library).  It will no longer be at the ATT building on Main Street (Rt. 10).  For residents on the Town's trash/recycling pickup, you can now recycling them in your blue Town of Farmington recycling cart.

Control Telephone Directory Delivery!

Choose which phone directories you receive or stop delivery altogether. 

http://www.yellowpagesoptout.com/opt-out

Click on the green button, enter your zip code and follow the prompts. Be sure to check your e-mail for a confirmation message.  From there you will be prompted to log back into the opt-out website where you can finish the process.

Your information will not be sold to third-parties and will be used solely to update publishers' delivery information.

Dry Cleaning Bags and Hangers

The following table identifies businesses where you can recycle dry cleaning plastic bags and hangers.

TUNXIS MEAD COMPOST AREA:

The Tunxis Mead Compost Area (located at the end of Tunxis Mead Road) is open on Wednesdays, from 8 a.m. - 12 noon, WEATHER PERMITTING.

Effective March 30, 2013, the Compost Area will also be open on Saturdays from 8 a.m. - 12 noon.  THE GATES CLOSE PROMPTLY AT NOON.  Please call 860-675-2550 during inclement weather.

Residents may bring brush and leaves there at no charge by showing their driver's license.  Also allowed is clean lumber ONLY (no plywood, pressure-treated, stained or painted wood).  Stumps and grass clippings are not allowed.  Wood pallets are acceptable. 

If your brush is under six inches (6") in diameter, the length of the brush does not matter, however if it is larger than six inches (6") in diameter, you will need to stop by the Farmington Highway and Grounds Division office between the hours of 8 a.m. - 4 p.m., Monday -Friday, to purchase residential tickets @ $8.50/ticket.  Depending on the size of your load determines how many tickets you will need.  Also, if your brush is larger than six inches (6") in diameter, it will need to be cut into two-foot (2') lengths before you bring it.

Residents may pick up leaf compost and wood mulch from the Compost Area.  Landscapers and Contractors are NOT ALLOWED to pick up this material.

Household Hazardous Waste Disposal

Many common household products contain hazardous chemicals that with repeated or excessive contact may lead to lung problems, brain and nerve damage, cancer and even death. A product is considered hazardous if it’s:

• TOXIC - can injure or kill if swallowed, inhaled or absorbed through the skin
• FLAMMABLE - may explode or ignite, even when cool
• CORROSIVE - can cause permanent tissue damage through contact
• REACTIVE - creates an explosion or produces deadly vapors

You can learn to avoid these chemicals by reading the labels. Those labeled Danger or Poison are typically the most hazardous. Others may be labeled Caution or Warning because they are skin or eye irritants. These signal words will be near a phrase that describes the nature of the hazard, such as “vapors harmful” or "extremely flammable”.

These products SHOULD NOT be thrown away in the regular trash. Farmington schedules an annual Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day that enables residents to bring unwanted household hazardous materials for collection and proper disposal by a licensed hazardous waste contractor. Additionally, since the Town contracts for this service through the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), residents can also attend any other MDC collection day scheduled between April and October.

To see this year’s collection schedule go to: http://www.themdc.com/househols_hazwaste.shtml

Click Here to view or download a helpful brochure that identifies what materials can be brought to a collection, what happens to collected wastes, identifies less hazardous alternatives, and gives disposal alternatives for wastes that are not accepted at the Household Hazardous Waste Collection Days.

For more information call (860)278-3809

Other Companies Licensed to Dispose of Other

Materials

Fees are charged and subject to change…Please call the following companies for:

• appliances, scrap metal, air conditioners:
  J.W.Green @ 860-747-5514
• grass clippings, clean stumps:
  Green Cycle of the Northeast @ 860-674-8855
• mattresses, furniture, and construction debris:
  CWPM @ 860-829-0714

A State D.E.P. law prohibits Connecticut's solid waste and resource recovery facilities and the compost area from accepting grass clippings. This means grass clippings cannot be collected at the curb or brought to the compost area. What can residents do? You can leave clippings on your lawn or compost them at home with other household vegetable or yard waste. For a fee, grass clippings can be brought to GreenCycle of the Northeast, 232 Colt Highway, Route 6, Farmington, CT or you may contact Chris Field at 860-674-8855, ext. 304 or fax @ 860-677-0067; email: cfield@greencycle.net or on the web at www.greencycle.net.