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Next Quarterly District Meeting

The Board of Supervisors will meet remotely, via Zoom, on Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. The public is welcome to participate. The agenda and a link to the meeting will be posted here in mid-July.

No more 4-hour Household Hazardous Waste Collections?

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​Nope! And no more waiting in long lines.
Instead, we have opened a seasonal HHW Depot to offer ​a more convenient way to dispose of bathroom cleaners, nail polish remover, paint, insecticides, chemical fertilizers, etc.

We are open Tuesday and Thursday mornings (we can't find any weekend help at present) and closing at the end of September.
Call Mary O'Brien at 802-674-9235 for an appointment and directions to the Depot.
  • ​SWWCSWMD residents only
  • $10/car for up to 10 gallons of HHW (no charge for paint)
  • Click here for a list of what we accept and don't accept.
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Are you a small business (i.e., a conditionally exempt generator)? You can bring your hazardous waste to our facility, too. Just fill out the inventory list; we'll get a disposal price for you.

What Can You Do With Your Food Scraps?

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Inventory: LOTS

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We finally received our order of Soil Saver backyard composters (June 8, 20220.)   And we still have Sure-Close food scrap pails. If you would like to buy one or both, 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 674-9235 or mobrien@marcvt.org and we will mail you one.
We are offering a remote opportunity to learn how to compost food scraps in your backyard. 
Ham Gillett, a Master Composter, filmed a backyard composting presentation which Okemo Valley TV aired. OVTV also shared the program with other local cable access television stations for them to broadcast. Click on one of the links below for Ham's presentation:
The Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District has a helpful booklet, "The Dirt on Compost," about backyard composting that you can access here.
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Composting in your backyard...it's easy, saves you money, and produces a great soil amendment for your garden.  Basically, composting is just collecting kitchen scraps and leaves and putting them in a pile or bin. Then Mother Nature does the work of turning it back into soil. Composting can be done with almost no effort. Just add  kitchen waste and leaves from the autumn leaf drop  at a ratio of 1:3 and ...compost happens!

But what about bears?!

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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.

Latest District News:

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Plastic straws are banned in Vermont - read about the law.
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What happens to the glass that you bring to the transfer station? 
Well, if you go to the Ludlow, Springfield, or Weathersfield transfer stations, all of the pickle jars, peanut butter jars, Snapple bottles, and wine bottles end up in a big pile on Springfield town land. Every few years, the glass is ground up. That glass is called processed glass aggregate or PGA. Contractors can use PGA as a gravel substitute in a variety of applications. Read More...
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Battery Recycling
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 the State added alkaline batteries (AA, AAA, C, D, 9v, etc.) to the list of batteries that can be recycled for FREE.  Read More...
Clean Wood, Leaf and yard debris are banned from the landfill as of July 1, 2016. Haulers who offer trash collection must also offer a service to collect leaf and yard debris, separate from other waste. Neither haulers nor transfer stations are required to collect clean wood. However, transfer stations may offer a spot for dropping off clean wood for other residents to pick up for reuse.  Read More...

"Sewing Peace"
  A job in a box!

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Seventy sewing machines (up from 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 2021. From there, the boxed machines
will be shipped to a partnering organization in Togo; the machines in cases will go to Cameroon.

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 or Springfield) and let the folks there know that you want to donate it to Sewing Peace. Thank you.   Read More...

Member Towns:

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

Quick Links:
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 new law.