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 pressurized cylinder can explode if placed in the trash or recycling.
What is a propane tank?
The shiretown that is home to the District Transfer Station and office.
What is Middlebury?
Recycling system where all recyclables go in the same bin and are sorted out later.
What is single-stream or blue-bin, curbside recycling?
"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 ultimate fate of books collected at the District Transfer Station.
What is recycled for paper at ShredEx?
This iconic recycling symbol is displayed on a building nicknamed "The Drop Zone" at the Middlebury Transfer Station.
What is the chasing arrows symbol?
Often slept upon, this new program helped expand what can be diverted from the landfill.
What is the mattress and box spring recycling program?
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?
This once-a-year event fixes anything, sometimes even broken hearts.
What is the repair fair?
The location 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?