Welcome to the online home of the Addison County Solid Waste Management District. Here you will find details about our programs and services, District news and publications, and practical information to help you properly recycle or dispose of household and business wastes. Do you know what should go in your blue bin and what items need special recycling elsewhere?
Plastic Free July is almost upon us! Get tips on how you can reduce your plastic use this summer, and join the global community fighting to end single. ACSWMD received $80,000 materials management grant for improving the collection and management of single stream recycling and food scraps. With our X-frame loan program you can borrow receptacles for recycling and compost collection, free of charge!
Plastic Free July is almost upon us! Get tips on how you can reduce your plastic use this summer, and join the global community fighting to end single. ACSWMD received $80,000 materials management grant for improving the collection and management of single stream recycling and food scraps. With our X-frame loan program you can borrow receptacles for recycling and compost collection, free of charge!
Services
The District Transfer Station, HazWaste Center, and Office are on Route 7 about 2 miles south of the Town of Middlebury (1223 Route 7 South), located on the east side of the highway between the U.S. Forest Service and Breadloaf Construction. PLEASE NOTE: The District Transfer Station in Middlebury does NOT accept residential trash by the bag or residential recycling.
Unsure of what to do with certain unwanted items? Maybe you have something that is too large for curbside collection, or potentially hazardous. Or items that could be reused or recycled? ACSWMD has assembled this easy-to-use, alphabetized index to help you quickly find the information you need, to properly dispose of unwanted household items.
Humans produce a lot of solid waste-2.01 billion tons per year, to be exact. The U.S., which is only 5% of the world's population, generates 292.4 million tons of municipal solid waste every year (Almost 15% of the worlds waste). Solid waste impacts the environment, human health, and the economy.
It is an all-encompassing matter that plays a major role in society; but in modern times is largely ignored by the public as the affects are so displaced from us.Throwing something away, to us, means never having to see or think about it again. But, as activist Annie Leonard once said, There is no such thing as 'away.'
It is an all-encompassing matter that plays a major role in society; but in modern times is largely ignored by the public as the affects are so displaced from us.Throwing something away, to us, means never having to see or think about it again. But, as activist Annie Leonard once said, There is no such thing as 'away.'
Every year, the average American sends over 1,000 pounds of everyday household refuse to landfills and/or incinerators. For example, a 2014 study found that the amount of electronic waste discarded worldwide in one year was worth an estimated $50 billion in precious metals and resources. Fortunately, we have the power to do something about this.
Until further notice, the District Reuse It or Lose It! program is closed. Please consider one of the alternative donation options listed at the bottom of the page before throwing away reusable goods. Residents of the District's 21 member towns may bring useable household goods and building materials to the Reuse It or Lose It! buildings at the District Transfer Station for others to take.
