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?
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?
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?
A tricky to recycle plastic collected by the District Transfer Station and participating grocery stores.
What are plastic bags and film?
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 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?