Recycling
A place where various wastes are aggregated and transported for disposal.
What is a transfer station?
"Browns" like dry leaves or straw add this to a compost pile.
What is carbon?
This common pressurized cylinder can explode if placed in the trash or recycling.
What is a propane tank?
This once-a-year District event "fixes" to turn what would be trash back into usable items.
What is the Repair Fair?
There's no "rest" for our newest recycling program, which keeps a large amount of materials from the landfill.
What is the mattress and box spring recycling program?
"Greens" like food scraps or fresh grass trimmings add this to a compost pile.
What is nitrogen?
This type of battery readily catches fire when damaged.
What is a lithium battery?
The number of active landfills within Vermont.
What is one?
This Vermont law made it mandatory to recycle.
What is ACT 148 / The Universal Recycling Law?
An organism found in the compost pile at the very end of the composting process.
What are worms?
The District collects this hazardous mineral commonly found in building materials from many older homes.
What is asbestos?
This iconic recycling symbol is displayed on a building nicknamed "The Drop Zone" at the Middlebury Transfer Station.
What is the chasing arrows symbol?
Recycling system where all recyclables go in the same bin and are sorted out later.
What is single-stream or blue-bin, curbside recycling?
The organism that does most of the work to breakdown your compost into a finished product.
What is bacteria?
The toxic material of concern within a fluorescent lamp.
What is mercury?
The acronym for the product that tires at the District Transfer Station are recycled into.
What is TDF or tire-derived fuel?
The facility where recycling is sorted into its prime categories: plastics, metals, glass and paper/cardboard.
What is the materials recovery facility?
Food scraps that cause problems for a backyard compost pile.
What are meat, fish, bones, dairy and oil?
Older televisions contain a large amount of this type of toxic element which should be kept out of the landfill.
What is lead?
The year that the District was created.
What is 1988?