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Draft 2025 Biennial Report public comments due by Dec 30, 2024. Please email comments to alyssa.eiklor@vermont.gov. Click here to view DRAFT report.
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Circular Arrows Recycling Symbol
Recycling
Food scrap symbol: white apple core on a green background
Food Scraps
Special Recycling symbol: two white arrows in the shape of a circle on an orange background
Special Recycling
banned plastic shopping bag and a brown kraft paper shopping bag that can by bought for 10 cents
Single-Use Products Law
Question Mark
What do I do with this...?
A large trash bag with an arrow pointing to a small trash bag
How can I Waste Less?
Recyclable containers, paper, and cardboard
What Happens to my Stuff?
landfill ban symbol of a trashcan with a red slash
Landfill-Banned Items and Trash
bear resistant dumpsters at a Vermont state park
Haulers Offering Bear-Resistant Waste Containers
Food donation symbol with a white apple on a purple background
Food Donation
Four containers of household hazardous waste products.
Household Hazardous Waste
A box truck with the food scrap symbol on it--a white apple core within a green circle
Find a Food Scrap Hauler
The shape of the state of Vermont, made up of recycling symbols
Contact your Waste District or Town
The four Universal Recycling Symbols--recycling "chasing arrows" on a blue circle, apple core on a green circle, apple on a purple circle, and trash can on a black circle
Posters and Graphics
The shape of Vermont configured as a trash tote with the lid slightly open and the chasing arrows recycling symbol on the side
Learn about the Universal Recycling Law
Follow along on Instagram
@TheVermontDEC for tips and behind-the-scenes with the Solid Waste Program and the rest of DEC
VTrecycles is on Facebook
Learn how to waste less, scrap food waste and compost the scraps, and recycle right.