What to Do With...
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Cars, Trucks, Boats, SUVs, Motorcycles
Vehicles can be donated to Wheels for Wishes. The profits are given to the Make a Wish Foundation. Donors get a tax-deductible receipt.
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 As of July 1, 2012, the transfer stations in the Southern Windsor/Windham Counties Solid Waste Management District will recycle fluorescent bulbs and tubes for FREE. Vermonters can bring in any number of CFLs and up to 10 tubes per visit at no charge. Transfer stations in the District are located in: Cavendish, Ludlow, Rockingham, Springfield, and Weathersfield. WinCycle in Windsor also accepts bulbs for free.
"Compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and other energy-efficient lighting, such as linear fluorescent and high intensity discharge (HID) lamps, contain a very small amount of mercury - an element essential to achieving energy savings. While these lamps help consumers and businesses cut their lighting energy usage and reduce energy costs, it is important that any product containing mercury be properly managed when it becomes waste to protect public health and the environment." (from www.lamprecycle.org) |
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The Windsor Police Department and the Springfield Police Department each has set up a permanent drug drop box in their buildings. The heavy, steel, double-locked boxes are available to the public from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. The police departments can also be contacted to set up alternative times for people to drop off their old prescription drugs.
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Bag and bring clean, dry bubble wrap to your transfer station. Individuals and businesses will pick it up for re-use. |
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Alternative Community Training (ACT) is a non-profit Missouri company that provides jobs to people with disabilities. Workers erase VHS tapes, re-selling the ones that are in good shape and recycling the plastic parts of the rest. They've recycled more than a million tapes so far.
Mail tapes (at the cheaper USPS media mail rate) to: ACT, 2200 Burlington, Columbia, MO 65202
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and usable ski art.
Specializing in ski Adirondack chairs,
ski benches, ski tables, ski racks,
outdoor furniture, and custom designed
and built products with your old gear or ours.
Each piece a unique work of art,
hand-crafted in Vermont, USA."
Clean out your barn and divert those old skis from the landfill - give them to Green Mountain Ski Furniture in Waterbury Center, Vermont. (And you won't have to pay to get rid of them.)
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Got an old mercury-containing thermostat?
Don’t trash it.
Cash it!
It is illegal to dispose of mercury-containing thermostats in the trash in Vermont because it's a hazardous waste. In 2008, mercury thermostat collection legislation was passed requiring thermostat manufacturers to provide a financial incentive of $5.00 for turning in a mercury-switch thermostat for recycling. Bring your mercury-switch thermostat to any Thermostat Recycling Corporation (TRC) collection location in the state and receive either an in-store credit (at retail locations) or a coupon that can be mailed in to receive payment by check.
TRC collects mercury-switch thermostats at all heating and cooling wholesalers in Vermont and at many thermostat retailers. All District transfer stations are participating in this program and have TRC coupons.
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You can contract with a private trash hauler to pick up your garbage bags, or you can take them yourself to the local transfer station. Clear Away Rubbish is one of the haulers in our district. |
Each year, Americans throw away 25 trillion Styrofoam cups. Styrofoam never biodegrades. Since there is currently no way to recycle Styrofoam, the best solution is not to purchase it in the first place.
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 As of January 1, 2007 it is illegal to use a lead sinker which weighs one-half ounce or less to fish in Vermont. Bring lead sinkers to your local transfer station and ask an attendant where to reycle them. |
Now you can recycle them. Check out this website for all the information. |
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