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Why We Will No Longer Accept Compostable Food Ware
As Vermont’s largest commercial compost facility, CSWD’s Organics Diversion Facility transforms more than 5,000 tons of food scraps from our community into high quality Green Mountain Compost brand compost and topsoil every year. By turning food into soil…
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Composting with Worms
For millions of years, worms have been hard at work breaking down organic materials and returning nutrients to the soil. Worm composting (also known…
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Back-to-school shopping? Try back-to-school swapping!
When I was a kid, August was the only time I could get a new outfit for school (I was the youngest of four),…
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Keep Calm and Recycle On: Part 1, The Life of a Milk Jug
The first in a series on recycling in Vermont. Here at the Chittenden Solid Waste District, we geek out on recycling. As municipal solid…
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Keep Calm and Recycle On: Part 2, The Rocky Road of Glass Recycling
The second in a series on recycling in Vermont. Read Part 1, Introduction and the Life of a Milk Jug. The first step: Broken…
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BUSTED: Blue-Bin mishaps
We’ve all been there, standing at a recycling bin, wondering whether what we’re holding is recyclable or not. “Oh well,” you might have heard…
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Backyard Composting & Digesting
Vermont’s Universal Recycling Law (Act 148) requires food scraps to be kept out of the landfill by 2020. You can easily manage food scraps, yard debris,…
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Items Banned From Landfills
Information about how the Banned Materials Fee is assessed, and more on the proper disposal or recycling for each banned item.
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All About Glass
Glass recycling is a complicated subject. The story is long, and the process continues to evolve. In this post we’ve broken it down into what’s happening now…
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Reduce Food Waste
Store Food Better | Donate Food | Feed Animals Did you know that almost one-third of the waste U.S. households throw away in landfills…
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How We Make Compost
Science, systems, and a whole lot of microbial magic! We make our compost using a process known as static aerated pile composting using local…
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Reduce & Reuse
Compared to creating products or packaging from virgin resources, recycling conserves resources, saves energy, and reduces pollution. Two other options, however, are even better…
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Jumping Worms: What You Can Do
The Problem: Jumping Worms (a.k.a. Snake Worms, Crazy Worms) rapidly consume plants and leaves, taking away nutrients and soil-securing roots, and leave behind loose…
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Let’s Scrap Food Waste
Vermont State law (Act 148) bans all food from the landfill and your trash.Here are your options for how to meet this requirement and…
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Invasive, Noxious, and Diseased Plants
Handle the following with care … then bring them to us for composting! The blossoms of wild parsnip or giant hogweed may add beauty…
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CSWD Spotlight on Business: Pingala Cafe and Eatery
“We’re just a small team trying to do the right thing” – Doing the right thing is one of the mottos that Lisa Bergström,…