About Us
The Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District (CVSWMD) is leading our communities to reduce waste! As a union municipality, we provide valuable waste management programs and services to our 19 member cities and towns to assist them in proper waste disposal and reduction efforts. The CVSWMD serves Barre City, Barre Town, Berlin, Bradford, Calais, Chelsea, Duxbury, East Montpelier, Fairlee, Hardwick, Middlesex, Montpelier, Orange, Plainfield, Tunbridge, Walden, Washington, Williamstown, and Woodbury.
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In 1987, Vermont passed Act 78, the state’s first solid waste law, to help reduce and manage waste. Act 78 created solid waste districts. Vermont solid waste districts are union municipalities that design regional solutions to the solid waste challenges faced by their member towns. CVSWMD was Chartered in 1987 to provide for disposal of solid waste generated by its member towns and cities. CVSWMD implements a Solid Waste Implementation Plan (SWIP) and meets other state requirements that towns and cities would otherwise have to provide for on their own.
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CVSWMD represents the overall interests of our members towns through our Board of Supervisors, which consists of a city/town appointed representative. We are frequently involved in state level solid waste policy planning and implementation. CVSWMD licenses private haulers to provide waste hauling services and drop-off locations for residents and businesses. We provide award-winning outreach and school programming, and operate the Additional Recyclables Collection Center to creatively manage the region’s difficult-to-recycle items. We strive to provide ambitious programming and services that will make our district a leader in Vermont when it comes to sustainable waste management and waste reduction.
Together with the community, we're building a beautiful, healthy and low-waste central Vermont!
Our Mission
Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District provides education, advocacy, and services for residents, schools and businesses in reducing and managing their solid waste in order to protect public health and the environment.
Zero Waste
The CVSWMD is working to eliminate as much landfill waste as possible, both through individual efforts and the systems that produce and recycle materials. This can be achieved through eliminating unnecessary single-use materials, maximizing the recovery and reuse of recyclable materials, and returning organic materials back to nature. In this journey efficiencies are created, business is generated, jobs are created, and communities are bound together toward a common outcome: to preserve our natural environment and create a sustainable future for everyone!
We look forward to helping Central Vermont in our journey towards zero waste!
The CVSWMD is working to eliminate as much landfill waste as possible, both through individual efforts and the systems that produce and recycle materials. This can be achieved through eliminating unnecessary single-use materials, maximizing the recovery and reuse of recyclable materials, and returning organic materials back to nature. In this journey efficiencies are created, business is generated, jobs are created, and communities are bound together toward a common outcome: to preserve our natural environment and create a sustainable future for everyone!
We look forward to helping Central Vermont in our journey towards zero waste!
The Plan
Vermont law requires that all municipalities develop a solid waste implementation plan that is in conformance with Vermont's Materials Management Plan and any regional plan. This 2020 Solid Waste Implementation Plan (SWIP) serves to meet the requirements established by Vermont Agency of Natural Resources for all CVSWMD member communities for the five-year period January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2025. The CVSWMD 2020 SWIP was adopted by the Board of Supervisors November 4th, 2020.
CVSWMD Solid Waste Implementation Plan
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CVSWMD Solid Waste Management Ordinance
On June 1, 2016, the CVSWMD Board adopted the CVSWMD Solid Waste Management Ordinance, which consolidates four previous CVSWMD ordinances into one unified ordinance. It went into effect on August 1, 2016. Read the full ordinance here.
CVSWMD Charter
The CVSWMD Charter describes the creation, purpose, and organization of the Central Vermont solid Waste Management District.
Municipal Code of Ethics
The CVSWMD Board has adopted the statewide Municipal Code of Ethics in keeping with Act 171. Read the policy here.
CVSWMD Ethics Complaint Investigation Ordinance
The CVSWMD Board of Supervisors has adopted an Ethics Complaint Investigation Ordinance in response to the requirements of Act 171. Read a copy of the ordinance here. To report a complaint or violation of ethics, use this form.
