Welcome to Go Green Milford!
This website will be dedicated and committed to helping others Go Green! Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Re-think! When done right, Going Green saves energy, saves money, preserves natural resources, reduces greenhouse-gas emissions and keeps toxins from leaking out of landfills.  

"We are obligated to leave the country looking as good if not better than when we found it!" Lady Bird Johnson

Green Facts you should know

• The average person produces upwards of 5 pounds of solid waste each day. About one pound of that gets recycled, and the rest is disposed. ThatĄ¯s roughly 1,800 pounds of solid waste per year per person!
• The amount of wood and paper thrown away every day is enough to heat 50 million homes for 20 years.
• 25 billion Styrofoam coffee cups are thrown away each year.
• Over the past five years, 91 million acres of forest have been depleted
• 1,859 pounds ¨C the number the average American contributes to air pollution each year.
• Running a refrigerator (with freezer) for one year equals as much pollution as driving a car from Chicago to Las Vegas!
• If every household in the United States replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified light bulb (compact floresent), we would conserve enough power to light over 3 million households for a year, save over $600 million of annual energy costs, and reduce greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of over 800,000 automobiles!
• 100 billion - the number of plastic bags thrown away by Americans each year! Of which 0.6% get recycled. The number of plastic bags used by a family of four each year: 1000. The number of years it takes for a plastic bag to decompose: 1000 
• For every ton of paper that is recycled, the following is saved: 7,000 gallons of water; 380 gallons of oil; and enough electricity to power an average house for six months.
• You can run a TV for six hours on the amount of electricity that is saved by recycling one aluminum can!
• More Green Facts ...

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The Milford recycling program accepts:  

Glass:  Empty, unbroken bottles and jars; clear, brown and green glass. Rinse, leave labels on, discard caps.   No drinking glasses, pyrex, mirrors, window or autoglass, lightbulbs, ceramic or broken glass.

Plastic:  Empty juice, soda, water, milk and laundry detergent bottles, or any container with a #1 or #2 in the recycling triangle located on the bottom of all plastic containers.  Rinse, leave labels on, discard caps, flatten large no deposit items.  The only exception to this #1 & #2 rule is Motor Oil or Antifreeze containers.  It contained a hazardous material and does not go in the bin.  It goes to the HazWaste Central in New Haven.  They run collections on Saturday mornings from May to October.

Metal:  Empty food and beverage cans, clean aluminum food trays.  Rinse, leave labels on.  No spray cans, paint cans, coat hangers or metal household items.

Newspaper/Junk Mail:  Unsoiled newspapers only, including inserts that are in the newspaper when purchased.  Junk Mail and magazines will now be accepted.  All must be either tied with twine or placed in a paper bag, not plastic bags.  No cardboard, wrapping paper, writing paper or any other type of paper will be accepted.

Go Green! Reduce, Reuse, Recyclye, Rethink! If not for you then for the children of the future!