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Our Household Hazardous Waste Depot in Springfield is closed for the season.

See you in May 2026 when we'll be open again for five months, two mornings a week.
Thanks for a successful season.

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If you need to dispose of household hazardous waste when the HHW Depot is closed for the season, visit www.rcswd.com and make an appointment to bring your material over to the Rutland facility or go to the Environmental Depot in South Burlington - www.cswd.net/cswd-location/environmental-depot/

Drop off paint for free at these retailers:  Bibens Ace Hardware and Sherwin- Williams in Springfield, and
Aubuchon Ace Hardware in Ludlow and Windsor (cans must have labels and not be leaky or rusty - up to five gallons/visit.)

The PaintCare program in Vermont:
  • Established in May 2014
  • 82 year-round drop-off sites
  • 1.2 million gallons collected (estimate)

76% of the latex paint collected in Vermont in 2024 was recycled back into paint.

What Can You Do With Your Food Scraps?

We're all out of composters, BUT

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we still have Sure-Close food scrap pails. If you would like to buy a pail, download and print out the order form and mail it in with a check. If you can't print out the form, contact us at 802-674-9235 or [email protected] - we will mail you one.

But what about bears?!

Bears can be a nuisance when they are attracted to the food scraps in a backyard composter. The Agency of Natural Resources has developed a short, helpful  management guide.
​Click here to read.
Clean Wood, Leaf and yard debris are banned from the landfill as of July 1, 2016. Read more...

Member Towns:

Click on a town below to get recycling, food scrap diversion, and trash information specific to that town.

District Meeting

Thursday, December 4, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. This will be a hybrid meeting; the Zoom link will be on the agenda when it is published.
Public is welcome.

The Southern Windsor/Windham Counties Solid Waste Management District will be
holding two public hearings to receive comments on its draft Solid Waste
Implementation Plan (SWIP) 2026-2031. The public hearings will be hybrid meetings, held
in person at Mount Ascutney Regional Planning Commission office at 38 Ascutney Park Road in Ascutney, Vermont and via Zoom.  The public hearings will be on November 6, 2025 (before the quarterly meeting), and December 4, 2025; both hearings will be held at 1:00 p.m.

To view a copy of the draft SWIP and to find the Zoom link and a copy of the December agenda, (when it is published) go to "About" at the top of this page.

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Battery Recycling

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​Drop off your used batteries for special recycling and save our one-and-only landfill!
Have you been throwing the used batteries from your remote controls, flashlights or toys into the trash? Stop!
That hasn't been acceptable for years - since Jan. 1, 2016, when Vermont added alkaline batteries (AA, AAA, C, D, 9v, etc.) to the list of batteries that can be recycled for FREE.  Read more...

"Sewing Peace"
  A job in a box!

Thirty-four sewing machines (47 in 2024, 56 in 2023, 55 in 2022, 70 in 2021, 48 in 2020, 43 in 2019 and 36 in 2018) from the District joined the Vermont shipment that made its way to New Jersey in September 2024.  From there, the boxed machines will be shipped to partnering organizations overseas. A sewing machine is considered "A Job in a Box."

If you have a no-longer-used but working sewing machine, please consider donating it to the Sewing Peace project. Just bring it to your local transfer station (Ludlow, Rockingham, or Springfield) and let the folks there know that you want to donate it to Sewing Peace. Thank you.
Vermont's Universal Recycling Law. Vermont has solid waste legislation that focuses on recyclables and organics. It will lead to more consistent services throughout the state. To read more about this law, click here. If you would like to look at and/or use the new universal recycling symbols for recycling, food, and trash, click here.  Download the Universal Recycling timeline and/or a summary of the law.