Stratford, Connecticut -
Garbage Museum - Closed
See a section of landfill and a dinosaur made of household garbage. Everything that you ever wanted to know about solid waste management.
- Address:
- 1410 Honeyspot Rd Ext., Stratford, CT
- Directions:
- From New York City - I-95 N to Exit 30, Lordship Boulevard. Bear right off exit. At 5th light R onto Honeyspot Rd. Ext. Museum is last building on right. 1410 Honeyspot Road Extension.
- Admission:
- $2/person 3 and under free.
- Hours:
- Closed in August 2011, hopes to reopen in 2012. (Call to verify)
- Phone:
- 203-381-9571
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Garbage Museum - Compost Living We thought this was intriguing. Living in a compost pile is very green -- it generates its own heat. [Roadsideamerica.com Team, 04/25/2009]
Garbage Museum - 24-ft. long Trash-o-saurus Meet Trash-o-saurus, a 24-foot-long dinosaur made from a ton of trash -- which is how much trash an average person throws away in a year. Visitors can walk through a giant compost pile, see compost worms in action, and watch from a sky box as recyclables are dumped, sorted, and crushed. [Roadsideamerica.com Team, 08/03/2003][RA: April 2009 - Photo added.]
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- P. T. Barnum Statue, Bridgeport, CT - 2 mi.
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- In the region: Trash Museum, Hartford, CT - 47 mi.
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