Did you know that Connecticut has a green movement achievement braced in museum fun? The three major Connecticut cities send their collected trash to Hartford’s Trash Museum. This trash is used to generate green energy. For instance, last year (2008), Hartford’s Trash Museum plant and the other three plants under CRRT generated over 1.9 billion kilowatt hours of Class II green power. The Hartford Trash Museum is located in Connecticut, at 211 Murphy Road. The Hartford’s Trash Museum is a project of the Connecticut Resource Recovery Authority. This initiative, like very few of the fun museums in the world today, is a very relevant enterprise, going by the contemporary global environment trend of conservation.
Today, the world is plagued by the effects of environmental pollution to the extent that nations are now converging to seek the way forward. The only way we can save the planet for the future generations is by adopting great recycling initiatives that reduce pollution in our environment. Museums have been a major attraction all over the world for many decades now. Among the most prolific fun museums, Hartford’s Trash Museum has become another of the destinations you should include in your must-see list.
Hartford Trash Museum
What’s on display then, you may ask. The museum has trash sculptures set up in distinct areas and a four-foot lighthouse that has been made from pure trash Gatorade aluminum cans and bubble wrap. The amazing Colt Building is also a masterpiece that has been cobbled from junk to resemble the real Colt Building. There are just so many other great trash innovations to see here. The Hartford’s Trash Museum is a display front for the CRRT plant at Hartford, where the state’s trash is put into good use.
The museum perfects museum fun by making a dull and largely unexciting activity (recycling) to be an activity that is both enjoyable and educative. Displaying the refining process of byproducts that would otherwise have been a waste and thus pollution to the environment, the museum is a model for many organizations and individuals who need to reawaken their commitment to the green movement. More importantly, the museum showcases instances of the little things we have no qualms about when we throw them into the garbage can, yet which would serve us greatly if recycled.
The Hartford’s Trash Museum helps instill in the current generation a picturesque appreciation of both the recycling need and the benefits that could accrue if recycling is emphasized. The museum offers tutorials and guided tours for groups and school children especially in collecting recyclables and the recycling processes for such trash like papers, bottles and the like. Some educational sections have been set up in the museum, such as the one teaching how aluminum, the most abundant metal within the Earth’s crust, is mined and then utilized.
The Hartford’s Trash Museum is generally one big hall that has been divided up using artistic piles of trash and then a viewing platform so that visitors can view employees sort out the trash. Immediately after making an entry into the educative museum, you first see the ‘Temple of Trash’ which is simply an awesome, huge stuck-together trash pile that has been molded into an archway to welcome you in. Then there is that thoughtful diagram illustrating how the plant achieves the trash-to-energy phenomenon. You can easily follow through the process from the trash, through sorting, shredding and then packing, burning and heating. From there, you follow the trash through the turbine to the gas scrubber then the filter and finally to the stacking.
The CRRA Trash Museum (Connecticut Resource Recovery Authority Trash Museum) is part of the four trash-to-energy operation plants. One of these plants is in Hartford, while others are in Bridgeport, Preston and Wallingford. We actually have 6 recycling plants in Connecticut, the main one being the Hartford’s Trash Museum plant.
Together, these six plants help process over 2 million tons of solid waste chunked out by the municipal. The amazing thing that makes this museum a world’s classic is that the 2 million tons of solid waste constitute 82% of all trash in Connecticut. It therefore shows that with emphasis and commitment, the world can manage to recycle 100% of the trash that is currently causing the global warming disaster. That is not all; the Hartford’s Trash Museum exemplifies how such a feat can be achieved.