How does this ordinance affect you?

• Households: If you have your waste picked up at your home, the hauler is required to provide for collection of recyclables as well as trash.
• Renters: If you rent and the property owner provides trash collection, the property owner is also required to provide for the collection of recyclable items.
• Businesses: The hauler you contract with for trash collection is required to provide recycling collection as well.
• If you self-haul (ie. take your trash to a bag drop, town depot, or transfer station), the hauler or drop-off location is required to also accept the mandatory recyclable items.

In addition, 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.

Households must recycle:

• Newspaper
• Clear glass bottles and jars
• #2 HDPE jugs
• Tin and aluminum cans

Businesses, schools, & municipalities must recycle:

• Newspaper
• Clear glass bottles and jars
• #2 HDPE jugs
• Tin and aluminum cans
• Corrugated cardboard
• White office paper

Where to Recycle?

• Households may use one of the various bag-drop businesses and town depot/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.
• Businesses: Contact a licensed hauler for business recycling and trash pickups.

Why Recycle?

Recycling keeps valuable resources in use, in addition to conserving landfill space. The items that must be recycled in the District comprise a large volume of the recyclable materials entering the municipal solid waste stream.