Recycling Options

Recycling keeps valuable resources in use, minimizes use of ever-more scarce and expensive raw resources, lessens environmental damage, creates more jobs than landfilling and is cheaper for you! Since recyclable items comprise a large amount of the materials entering the municipal solid waste stream, it also conserves landfill space. Given the difficulties in siting new landfills, recycling just makes sense. So do the right thing...recycle!

 

Did you know that CVSWMD has a Mandatory Recycling Ordinance (MRO)?

First passed in 1994, the MRO is intended to minimize the use of resources, prolong the life of landfills, protect the environment and, consistent with the charge to each solid waste management district in the state, protect the public health and welfare.
  • You will always have recycling options available to you, no matter how you choose to dispose of your waste, even if you rent your home.
  • Certain materials must be recycled by businesses and residents within the district.
  • The hauler, transfer station, or bag-drop is also required to give you a financial incentive to recycle. This means that recycling services must cost less than trash services.

All households and businesses in the Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District are now required to recycle:
  • Glass- all colors
  • Tin, steel, aluminum cans
  • Foil and pie plates
  • Aerosol cans
  • Plastics #1-#7 (see posters below for details on what can be recycled in our region!)
  • Newspaper
  • Magazines, catalogs, paperbacks
  • White and colored office paper
  • Paper mail and envelopes
  • Brown and colored paper bags
  • Boxboard
  • Corrugated cardboard
  • Phone Books

*    The fee charged to recycle materials cannot exceed 50% of the cost charged to collect the same quantity of trash.
*    If your trash hauler or landlord is not offering recycling of these items,  please call the Central Vermont Solid Waste           Management District at 800.730.9475 X 106.

Your children and grandchildren will appreciate our efforts to conserve resources and reduce environmental pollution. Let's create the best world we can for them!

Mandatory Recyclables Poster

Download Mandatory Recyclables Poster

Download Recycling 101

Trash Options

Households: residents may use one of the various bag-drop businesses and town depots/privately run transfer stations in the region or may contract with a licensed hauler for pickup service (where available). Contact your town clerk for information about bag-drop businesses that operate in your area.

Want to compost at home? Check out some options!
Businesses: contact a licensed hauler for business recycling and trash pickups.

*Please note: CVSWMD doesn’t operate any of these trash/recycling facilities, so please contact the town offices and facilities directly for more information and to confirm the hours of operation.

Depots
•    Barre Town Depot - Tuesdays & Saturdays, 8am to 3:30 pm (Operated by EarthWaste) 802.775.7722 
•    Bradford Depot - Saturdays, 8am to noon (Operated by EarthWaste) 802.775.7722
•    Calais Depot - Saturdays, 8am to noon (Operated by Brian Perry & Sons) 802.472.6659
•    Chelsea Depot - Saturdays, 8am to 3:50pm (Town Office) 802.685.4460
•    Tunbridge Depot - Saturdays, 9am to 3pm (Town Office) 802.889.5521

Facilities in the Region
•    CV Transfer Station, East Montpelier (Casella) 802.479.2450
•    Trash and recycling drop, Montpelier (Casella) 802.223.7045
•    Moretown Landfill - 802.244.1100
•    Trash drop at All Metals, Hardwick - 802.472.5100

Scrap Metal Recycling
•    All Metals, Hardwick - 802.472.5100
•    Bolduc Auto Salvage, Montpelier - 802.223.7917
•    Gates Salvage, Hardwick - 802.472.5794
•    Metal Recycling Enterprises, Waterbury - 802.223.0509

Licensed Haulers in CVSWMD offering curbside trash and recycling pick up for residents and businesses
  • Casella Waste Management 888-314-2142
  • Myers Container  800-981-5213
  • Norman John Rubbish 802-276-3458
  • Giroux’s Trucking 802-476-5735

*Please also see list of all licensed haulers in the CVSWMD.  Some others may do curbside hauling depending on location and specific need.

List of Haulers

Contact us if you have questions about recycling or trash services.
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