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Vermont food scraps, compost and power source
Vermont Food Scrap map Download PDF of Vermont Food Scraps 2009 The Potential Food Scrap Generation Map illustrates the estimated food scraps generated by town. The information for this map came from a...
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Shaftsbury controversy colors revision of compost rules
Compost Only. VTD/Josh Larkin As the state was finishing up a lengthy revision of its composting regulations last year, a group of citizens in Shaftsbury mobilized to stop a proposed composting...
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Chittenden Solid Waste District sends out technicians to record damage caused...
The Chittenden Solid Waste District has begun deploying a posse of field technicians to respond to the crisis at Green Mountain Compost, all of whose products were found to be contaminated with trace...
View ArticleChittenden Solid Waste District recalls all compost products, bagged and bulk
Last week the Chittenden Solid Waste District recalled all of its Green Mountain Compost products sold on the retail market. Laboratory tests showed trace amounts of the herbicides Clopyralid and...
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Bike service now re-“cycling” Burlington’s compostable food scraps
One Revolution rider Rylan Sirianni picked up waste from the Burlington Famers Market. VTD Photo/Taylor Dobbs Composting and biking might not seem like a naturally paired activity for most people, but...
View ArticleChittenden Solid Waste District commissioners to repay gardeners whose crops...
Following up on a meeting last week that ended without a formal decision on how to reimburse Green Mountain Compost customers whose crops have been damaged by contaminated compost products, the...
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Definite answers to compost contamination proving difficult to find
The Green Mountain Compost facility. Photo by Kate Robinson The Chittenden Solid Waste District and federal and state officials are working together to find a solution to what CSWD head Tom Moreau...
View ArticleNortheast Kingdom Waste Management District and Highfields Center for...
For Immediate Release July 15, 2013 Contact Julian Post, Highfields Center for Composting: Julian@highfieldscomposting.org Contact Paul Tomasi, NEKWMD Director: director@nekwmd.org Northeast Kingdom...
View ArticleBrown: What’s with the squeeze on organic compost producers?
Editor’s note: This commentary is by Gaelan Brown, who is the founder of CompostPower.org in Fayston. With costly legal battles in the past few years between the State of Vermont and several of our...
View ArticleAgrilab Technologies expands compost-powered energy
News Release — Agrilab Technologies Nov. 5, 2013 ENOSBURG FALLS — Agrilab Technologies LLC, (AGT) a global leader in compost heat-recovery technology, announced today the launch of a containerized...
View Article2013 Environmental Recap: Gas pipeline, mandatory recycling, lake protection...
Environmental issues last year ranged from the expansion of a natural gas pipeline to Addison County, a new thermal efficiency program, the phase-in of the state’s mandatory recycling program and an...
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Legislative preview: Bottle bill is on the chopping block; new proposal would...
Bobby Martino does the multi-bottle sort at M&M Beverage and Redemption Center. VTDigger file photo Recycling, water quality and land development permitting are among lawmakers’ top environmental...
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Changes in bottle bill likely headed for scrap heap
A bin full of mixed glass bottles at the TOMRA recycling facility in Essex Junction. Photo by John Herrick/VTDigger Environmental groups and beverage redemption centers joined arms Thursday to oppose...
View ArticleBulk compost sales are now tax exempt
Compost, planting mixes and manure are now exempt from the state’s sales tax as part of changes to the miscellaneous tax law, Act 148, which took effect Tuesday. These exemptions apply to clean,...
View ArticleState launches map of recycling, compost facilities
A map released by the Agency of Natural Resources on Thursday is designed to make recycling and composting easier under Vermont’s new mandatory recycling law. The map includes the locations of a wide...
View ArticleGaelan Brown: Compost powered heat
Editor’s note: This commentary is by Gaelan Brown, who is the founder of CompostPower.org in Fayston. He is the author of “The Compost Powered Water Heater.” Imagine being able to heat water,...
View ArticleGreen Mountain Compost now available by the bag at CSWD’s Burlington Drop-Off...
News Release — CSWD Aug. 21, 2014 Contact: Clare Innes Marketing & Communications Coordinator Chittenden Solid Waste District (802) 872-8100 x207 cinnes@cswd.net We’re making it more convenient to...
View ArticleCSWD holds composting workshop
News Release — Chittden Solid Waste District 09/10/2014 Contact: Clare Innes Marketing & Communications Coordinator Chittenden Solid Waste District (802) 872-8100 x207 Cell: (802) 922-3616...
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Bike service now re-“cycling” Burlington’s compostable food scraps
One Revolution rider Rylan Sirianni picked up waste from the Burlington Famers Market. VTD Photo/Taylor Dobbs Composting and biking might not seem like a naturally paired activity for most people, but...
View ArticleChittenden Solid Waste District commissioners to repay gardeners whose crops...
Following up on a meeting last week that ended without a formal decision on how to reimburse Green Mountain Compost customers whose crops have been damaged by contaminated compost products, the...
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