Central District, Vermont
The USDA is providing $100,000 for three rural Vermont solid waste districts to collaboratively collect commercial food residuals. The nonprofit Highfields Institute received a grant to collect and compost food residuals within the Central Vermont District, the Northeast Kingdom and the town of Greensboro. Residuals will be brought to the Highfields' compost site. The area generates approximately 300 to 500 tons of commercial food residually per year; the program will target diversion of 150 to 300 tons.
By combining hauling routes in the three districts, the Inter-Waste District Food Waste Recycling Program hopes to achieve sufficient economies of …
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