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Southern Windsor/Windham Counties Solid Waste Management District (SW/WCSWMD) is a union municipal district dedicated to providing solid waste management authority, services, and planning to its member towns. The District was chartered in 1981 and currently serves thirteen Vermont towns. The District is managed currently by the Southern Windsor County Regional Planning Commission, Thomas J. Kennedy, Executive Director.
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"If all the food scraps in Vermont were composted instead of landfilled it would provide an estimated carbon offset equivalent to not burning 12 MILLION gallons of gas!"

from the Highfields Center for Composting in Hardwick, Vermont

Recycle Corks

You can now recycle your corks, natural and synthetic, at the Windsor Recycling Center and at the Weathersfield Transfer Station. Look for the clear plastic jug and drop your corks into it. The corks are mailed to TerraCycle which has them "upcycled" into corkboards. The corkboards are sold through retail stores, such as Wal-Mart.

TerraCycle donates 2¢ per cork to a non-profit. So far, the collection jugs at the Springfield and Rockingham transfer stations have raised $72 for The Nature Conservancy.

Lighting for the Future

LED BULBS BEAT INCANDESCENTS IN LIFECYCLE ASSESSMENT

A comprehensive life cycle assessment study conducted by German lighting manufacturer, OSRAM, has found that the total energy used by an LED bulb from manufacture to disposal is only one fifth of that required by incandescent models. The study, "Life Cycle Assessment of Illuminants," details the energy required for raw material production, manufacturing and assembly, transport, use, and end-of-life management. Incandescent lamps were reported to use approximately 3,300 kWh during their entire life, compared to less than 670 kWh for LEDs. OSRAM expects that the market will shift in favor of LEDs in the coming years as developing technologies yield even greater efficiency throughout the product's entire life cycle.

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District Meeting

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The next quarterly meeting of the Board of Supervisors is scheduled for Thursday, October 28, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. in the Selectmen's Meeting Room, Springfield Town Offices. The public is welcome to attend.