Roxbury Transfer Station

Roxbury Transfer Station on Lower County Road is where Roxbury residents take household trash and recyclables instead of driving to a distant landfill. Connecticut has no active landfills, so loads here get compacted and trucked out of state, and the state DEEP enforces strict recycling requirements.

Expect to pause at an entrance booth and a scale - many Connecticut transfer stations charge by weight, so be prepared to pull through again on the way out. Vehicles usually line up in a single file; once past the booth the drop-off spots for trash and recyclables are generally easy to find to one side. The site looks industrial: large containers, compactors and piles of sorted material, with trucks moving between bays. Weekends, especially during spring cleanup, tend to get backed up and move much slower than weekday mornings.