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Created on Friday, 26 September 2014 21:03

Written by Jessie Slater

LYNDONVILLE- The Northeast Kingdom Town Waste Management District in Lyndonville is improving how they collect recyclables of all kinds.  For a few years, the Waste Department has hosted an event that runs from the spring to the start of fall that allows people to recycle hazardous household waste.

Now they are building on their event by helping the community follow the new law ACT 148. This new law is mandating what can be put in landfills. Even though the law won’t be fully complete until the year 2020, the process of taking trash locally is changing this year.

Executive director of the Northeast Kingdom Solid Waste Management District, Paul Tomasi stressed the importance of the program.

“We have a number of towns that tax fund the way they collect trash. One of the provisions of ACT 148 is to eliminate that so everybody has to pay for what they produce.”

Haulers will no longer be allowed to bring: aluminum and steel cans, aluminum foil and pie plates, glass bottles and food jars, PET and HDPE plastic bottles and jugs, corrugated cardboard, white and mixed paper, newspaper, magazines, catalogues, paper envelopes, box board, paper bags and clean wood debris to landfills.

The Waste Management District in Lyndonville is still taking any recyclables including household hazardous waste materials. They have collected things from whip cream bottles to old equipment for horses. It is a rare occasion that the district refuses to recycle something. October first the district is putting on a big event to collect any household hazardous waste. After this event, there are only three other days that the district will collect any household hazardous until the start of spring.        

For more information Visit the Northeast Kingdom waste management website.