A gas cylinder includes any nonrefillable or refillable cylinder supplied to a consumer for personal, family or household use with flammable pressurized gas, helium or carbon dioxide. A gas cylinder does not include any cylinder, tube or container intended to deliver a product that is not a compressed gas, any medical or industrial-grade cylinder or any cylinder that is used by any medical facility or commercial enterprise or that contains oxygen, refrigerants, acetylene, hydrogen, ethylene, or foam adhesives.
Currently, cylinders are not accepted for recycling in single stream curbside recycling, and they are not accepted as part of the Scrap Metal drop off.
To recycle propane tanks, such as 20-pound BBQ grill tanks, drop off a participating refilling or exchange location. For more information on recycling, visit Propane Tank Recycling.
Connecticut’s extended producer responsibility (EPR) law for gas cylinders passed in 2022.
CT Public Act 22-27 and 2024 CT Public Act 24-133. For more State of CT information on EPR, go to EPR Cylinder Stewardship Program.