WEST HARTFORD, CT — West Hartford residents can recycle pumpkins for free from Sunday, Nov. 1, through Tuesday, Dec. 1, according to a town announcement.
Quantum Organics will process the collected pumpkins into compost and biofuel.
Drop-off locations are the West Hartford Town Hall parking lot by Burr Street, the Department of Public Works at 17 Brixton St., and Westmoor Park at 119 Flag Road.
Residents can also use any of the town's 11 food scrap collection bins.
The town is seeking to double the previous year's collection, which diverted 33,000 pounds of pumpkins from the trash to biofuel.
Its announcement warns that pumpkins put in the trash produce environmentally harmful methane and increase the town's waste disposal costs.
Residents should remove all plastic bags, trash, and other recyclables before dropping off pumpkins.
The town also instructs residents not to feed pumpkins to the farm animals at Westmoor Park.
Source: "Pumpkin Recycling at 3 locations, November 1-December 1" (westhartfordct.gov)
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