Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources has awarded additional funds to the Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District (CVSWMD) to help construct a year-round household hazardous waste collection facility and to purchase a new box truck for hauling materials.
ANR’s Department of Environmental Conservation has awarded CVSWMD $156,100 from its Solid Waste Management Assistant Fund to manage household hazardous waste in Central Vermont. In February 2020, DEC awarded CVSWMD $500,000 for the construction of a new household hazardous waste collection facility. The 2021 grant award increases CVSWMD’s total grant funding from DEC to $656,100, with $600,000 designated for facility construction and $56,100 for a new box truck.
These funds significantly contribute to the cost of building a suitable facility to accept household hazardous waste from CVSWMD’s residents in central Vermont on a permanent, year-round basis. The State’s support for this project emerges from a 2017 report highlighting the need for a permanent HHW facility as critical infrastructure that is currently missing in the region.
CVSWMD’s residents have consistently expressed the need for a year-round Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) drop-off center. Annually, CVSWMD hosts five one-day seasonal household hazardous waste collections throughout its 19-member municipalities. Residents and small businesses bring materials such as household cleaners, automotive fluids, paint and paint thinners, pesticides and more to these collection events. A year-round collection facility will mean that businesses and households will have convenient access to a collection facility and will no longer need to store hazardous materials between collection dates or transport them to other facilities outside the Central Vermont region.
CVSWMD TOWNS INCLUDE: Barre City, Barre Town, Berlin, Bradford,
Calais, Chelsea, Duxbury, East Montpelier, Fairlee, Hardwick,
Middlesex, Montpelier, Orange, Plainfield, Tunbridge, Walden, Washington, Williamstown, and Woodbury.