FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 25, 2012
Contact:
Cassandra Brush
Phone: (802) 229-9383 x 102
The Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District received a $20,000 grant from the Attorney General’s office to develop and implement a trial residential composting program this year.
Montpelier — Since 2004, the Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District has been providing a way for schools and businesses to divert organics to compost facilities rather than sending the materials to the landfill. Now the district will be able to offer the same thing to residents. On June 25, the Vermont Attorney General’s Office granted the CVSWMD $20,000 to develop a pilot residential composting program, as part of a payment required under a recent consumer protection settlement with Fabri-Kal Corporation of Kalamazoo, MI, a supplier of “compostable” products, which only really compost in large-scale commercial facilities. This puts Central Vermont almost eight years ahead of the bar set by state law, H.485, which requires mandatory home-composting by the year 2020. The pilot will start in just a few district towns in order work out the kinks.
A nice feature of this program is that the district will be able to take meat, dairy, bones, fish and bread scraps, items most home composters don’t add to the mix. So even those who are already back-yard composting can divert their meat, fish and dairy scraps in our pilot program. CVSWMD also sells “soil savers” at cost for composting, and Green Cones for meat, fish, bones, dairy, and pet waste. The pilot residential composting collection is just one facet of the CVSWMD’s overall Zero Waste approach, which includes back-yard composting and recycling among many other programs.
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