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Regional authority urges more funding for transfer stations, recycling coordinators, HHW access and local organics infrastructure
Summary
The Housatonic Resources Recovery Authority told legislators that Connecticut needs to invest in municipal transfer stations, make recycling‑coordinator positions permanent and expand hazardous household waste access and local organics capacity to avoid future disposal disruption.
Jen Heaton Jones, executive director of the Housatonic Resources Recovery Authority, told the forum that local infrastructure and municipal staffing are critical to any statewide solution and that some local facilities are already straining.
Heaton Jones said local transfer stations are often outdated, unsafe and open limited hours, and that many municipalities lack dedicated, trained recycling coordinators. “Recycling coordinators…are no longer a hired position. They're just someone's other job,”…
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