Hartford Recycling Center

Directions
The Hartford Recycling Center (HRC) is located about 2 miles south of the VA Hospital in WRJ on Route 5. The HRC is located on your left as you are heading south after the tree nursery (the east side of Route 5).

Hours of Operation
Administration Office: 8:00 - 4:00 Monday through Friday
Residential Recycling, Waste, & C&D Drop-Off: 8:00 - 4:00 Monday through Saturday
Commercial Recycling & C&D Drop-Off: 8:00 - 3:30 Monday through Saturday
Click here for Holiday Closures.

Participating Towns
Bridgewater, Hartland, Hartford (Wilder, Quechee, West Hartford, White River Junction), Norwich, Pomfret, Sharon, Strafford, Thetford, Vershire, West Fairlee, Woodstock. The facility also accepts Construction and Demolition debris (C&D) from 8 New Hampshire towns.

Permits
Residential Vehicle Annual Permit Fee: $17.00, July 1st through June 30th.
GUV District residents must get permits at their town office or at the GUVSWD office (or by mail through the GUVSWD office). Hartford residents may purchase permits at the scale house.

Commercial Vehicle Annual Permit Fee: $50 per calendar year.
Purchase at Hartford Solid Waste Administration Office.

Recycling and Waste Disposal Rates
Residential Customers: Recycling and composting is included with your permit fee. One coupon or one card punch is needed to dispose of the equivalent of one large 30-gallon kitchen bag (up to 40 pounds) of trash or approximately 50 pounds of Construction & Demolition, tree/brush material, or bulky waste. Two coupons or punches allow disposal of one tire (18-inches or less) without its rim. Three coupons or punches allow disposal of one tire (18-inches or less) with its rim. Truck and tractor trailer tires cost one coupon or card punch per 40 pounds. Car batteries may be disposed of at a cost of one coupon per battery.

GUV District Resident Coupons: $3.60 each or $36 per punch card of 10, and are available at member towns' offices and at the GUVSWD office.

Hartford Resident Coupons: $2.85 each or $28.50 per punch card of 10 punches. Coupons and punch cards may be purchased at the Scale House/Pay Station (M-F 8am-4pm) or the Treasurer's Office in Town Hall (M-F 8am-5pm).

Paper:

• Mixed Paper: magazines, catalogs, envelopes with or without plastic windows, white paper, colored paper, and phonebooks. NO paper-back or hard-cover books, spiral wire from notebooks or calendars, blueprints.
• Corrugated Cardboard: cardboard and brown paper bags. Cardboard must be dry, flattened, and ripped down to 4-by-4 foot pieces and loose. NO animal feed bags with plastic liners please.
• Newspaper: dry and loose
• Boxboard: cereal boxes, shoe boxes, egg cartons, wrapping paper tubes, toilet paper tubes, paper towel tubes, and toy boxes. NO beer or soda cartons, butter cartons or any boxes that may be put in the refrigerator or freezer (they're permeated with chemicals to not fall apart when damp.)

Metals:

• Aluminum Foil: rinsed foil, pie plates and other foil containers.
• Aluminum Beverage Cans
• Steel Cans: food cans, all cat food cans, syrup containers, cookie tins, glass jar and can lids.
• Scrap Metal: metals including appliances without Freon, coat hangers, and empty dry paint cans. Fuel tanks must be completely open and flushed. Barrels must be crushed or punched. All scrap must be primarily metal. NO liquid, paint, or compressed gas cylinders. Ask directions to the scrap container at the Pay Station.

Plastics:

• PETE #1: soda bottles, water bottles, alcohol bottles, juice bottles and any other container with a #1 PETE symbol on it. NO caps, please.
• Translucent HDPE #2: clear milk and juice bottles. NO tubs or caps, please.
• Colored HDPE #2: laundry detergent, dish detergent, shampoo, and juice bottles (except Tropicana, which must be discarded), Hood white milk jugs and any narrow-necked container with #2 HDPE on it. NO tubs, caps, or automotive fluid containers, please.

Glass:

• Clear Glass: all clear glass containers. NO caps, canning jars, or ceramics please.
• Brown and Green Glass: brown and green glass containers. NO caps please.

• Used Motor Oil: Take to the Pay Station Attendant in see-through containers only (e.g. one-gallon milk jugs or juice containers) NO mixtures.
• Antifreeze: Take to the Pay Station Attendant in see-through containers only (e.g. one-gallon milk jugs). NO mixtures. There is a cost of 1 punch per gallon.
• Auto Batteries: There is a charge of one coupon per battery.

• C&D Area #1: Unpainted wood, painted wood, treated wood, plaster board, blue board, insulation (hard and soft), asphalt shingles.
• C&D Area #2: Bricks, concrete, poured block.

• Containers should be rinsed and free of food debris and excess fluids.
• Plastic caps should be removed and discarded. (metal lids and caps can be recycled with steel cans.)
• Paper products should be dry and loose (no bundles).
• Only narrow-neck plastic containers numbered 1 and 2 are recycled. All other plastics should be discarded.
• Plastics used for automotive/petroleum fluids (e.g. motor oil, starter fluid) should be discarded.
• No Styrofoam is accepted in any form. (Local packaging businesses will probably take your Styrofoam peanuts. Look in the Yellow Pages under packaging.)
• Labels may remain on containers.
• Boxes should be flattened and cut down to no larger than 4 feet by 4 feet.
• Alkaline household batteries (AAA, AA, C, D, 9-Volt) may be discarded with your trash (rechargeable, button, and Lithium batteries should be taken to a Household Hazardous Waste collection).
• Paper milk cartons, juice cartons, butter packages, frozen food packages,beer and soda packages must be discarded. They are coated or permeated with chemical which contaminate other recyclable paper.
• Plastic "windows" and metal cutting strips should be removed from boxboard containers.

• Don't leave any items in the sort area. Check with staff if you have questions.
• Use the signs and examples above the sorting tubes as a guide for sorting. Missorts cost money.
• Supervise your children and keep them off the rollers.
• If a tube is closed do not remove the block, there's nothing to catch your recyclables below!
• See the Pay Station attendant for very large loads of any material to place in outside roll-off containers.
• Shoes must be worn at all times when on facility grounds.
• The Town is not responsible for lost, stolen, or damaged items.

Greater Upper Valley Solid Waste Management District
96 Mill Street, PO Box 58, No. Hartland, VT 05052-0058
Phone (802)296-3688  |  Fax 281-7088  |  E-mail GUVSWD@valley.net