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Once a month, the Rotary Club of Austin-Southwest stops by the Sustainable Food Center's farmer's market to gather Styrofoam for recycling.

A pile of Styrofoam waits to be ground up at Regional Refuse District 1, the recycling center for Winsted, Barkhamsted and New Hartford, which recently acquired a Styrofoam recycling machine.

“Styrofoam recycling is putting a Band-Aid on a bullet hole,” he said. “At some point in the process, the polymer chains will break down, they will degrade, ...