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2020 Approved and Adopted Solid Waste Implementation Plan
SWAC has rewritten its Solid Waste Implementation Plan (SWIP) to comply with the new Vermont Materials Management Plan (MMP). The MMP contains performance standards, including those focused on implementing Act 148 (Vermont’s universal recycling and composting law), that each solid waste entity must meet to achieve the following goals:
•Prevent waste from being generated.
•Promote sustainable materials management, with a preference for highest and best uses.
•Minimize reliance on waste disposal (landfilling and incineration).
•Conserve resources, minimize energy consumption, and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other adverse environmental impacts.
The State approved SWAC's last solid waste implemented in 2015 (2015 Solid Waste Implementation Plan). The plan provides a history of SWAC and its activities, how each waste stream was managed at the time, and the 5-year plan for increasing diversion and improving management of certain waste streams.
Using the new approach and format provided by the State, SWAC's new SWIP provides the following information:
•How the SWAC towns will educate the public on the reduction and diversion of recyclables, yard trimmings, food scraps, clean wood, hazardous waste, pharmaceuticals, textiles, and construction and demolition debris.
•How the SWAC towns will work with schools and businesses to improve their waste diversion programs including food waste.
•How the SWAC towns will improve waste reduction at events and public spaces.
•How recyclables, organics, hazardous waste, textiles, construction and demolition debris, and biosolids are managed in the SWAC towns.
•How the SWAC towns will implement variable rate pricing for residential trash and recyclables.
•Criteria for siting solid waste facilities in the SWAC towns and procedures for including solid waste facilities in the plan.
•Solid waste facilities and haulers that operate in the SWAC towns.
Thank you in advance for your help in responsibly and economically managing the solid and hazardous waste in your community.
Related Links
- ANR Solid Waste Staff Assistance
- Single Use Plastics Ban
- Single Use Products Law – FAQs
- It’s Banned in Vermont!
- Six Things to Recycle in Vermont
- Vermonter’s Guide to Recycling
- Vermont Waste Not Guide
- Universal Recycling Summary
- Landlord FAQs
- Universal Recycling Material Management Map
- Trash Haulers Servicing Rutland County
- Hauler and Facility Fact Sheet
- Food Waste Guidance
- Food Haulers
- Legislative Changes to Act 148 – 2019
- Legislative Changes to Act 148 – 2018
- Act 148 Timeline
- SWIP Newspaper Article