CLOSURE NOTICE: All facilities will be CLOSED on Friday, June 19 to celebrate JUNETEENTH. The Organics Recycling Facility is open for drop-off only. Please plan ahead.
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Community Clean Up Fund Request
CSWD’s budget includes an annual allocation for each CSWD member town or city for community cleanup and waste reduction or prevention projects.
Clean Up Funds may be used for cleanup projects, waste reduction events or projects and waste prevention events or projects.
CSWD Waste Reduction Project Funding
Donation Request Form
CSWD considers requests for donations of Local Color paint and Green Mountain Compost on a first-come-first-served basis to projects that further our mission to…
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,…
Food Scraps = Carbon Pollution
OVER 70,000 TONS OF FOOD SCRAPS end up in Vermont’s only landfill each year, creating dangerous methane gas when they decompose. That’s a significant…
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…
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.
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…
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…
Programs & Learning Opportunities
At CSWD, we don’t just operate facilities that collect and manage your trash, recycling, and food scraps. We also lead tours and run training…
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…
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…
The Rover – CSWD’s Hazardous Waste Mobile Unit
The Rover, CSWD’s mobile household hazardous waste collection unit, accepts a wide variety of household hazardous waste at no charge from Chittenden County residents –…
Waste Warriors
Are you a rampant recycler? Do you carry your banana peel home when you can’t find a compost bin? Are you on a mission…
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…
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…
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),…
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,…