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By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

If you generate one ton or more of food waste per week in New Hampshire, starting in February you will no longer be allowed to dump it in landfills or incinerators. This change isn’t likely to affect households, but it will have a significant impact...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Over the past few weeks, waste disposal sites across the state have become the scene of a meticulous investigation. Trash bags are being torn open, their contents spread out on tables and examined with a fine-tooth comb.This scrutiny is part of the...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

New Hampshire’s proposed solid waste rules face a critical checkpoint before reaching legislative offices – a review by the Waste Management Council, an advisory body to the state agency primarily composed of members from the waste industry.After many...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

In Andy Chew’s garage, aluminum cans — remnants of seltzers and assorted drinks — are piled high in large bins because it pains him too much to throw them away.Living in Wilmot, N.H., where recycling options are scarce, with the town lacking...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

As testimony on bills targeting landfill safety in New Hampshire continues in both chambers of the legislature, the state Department of Environmental Services maintains its stance against proposed legislation advocating for a four-year moratorium of...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Sherri Cheney was awed by the sight of towering mounds of food scraps mixed with ground-up wood chips from demolition debris, reaching a height of at least 7 feet at the Lebanon landfill’s transfer station. These piles of waste were being converted...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

After a 10-year deal with Casella Waste Systems, Concord is on track to shift from burying its trash to burning it.Under the terms of their new contract set to begin on July 1, 2024, Casella will continue to collect and transport the city’s waste, but...

By ALEX HANSON

ROYALTON — A metal building where residents of Bethel, Royalton and five other White River Valley towns dump their trash is in such desperate need of repair that it has been closed to the public.At the same time, the Bethel Selectboard has triggered a...

By ALEX HANSON

ROYALTON — Since the advent of recycling, the trash-throwing public has grown used to it being a free service. It costs money to throw out the trash, but recycling, with its halo of virtue and the value of the materials in the marketplace, was a...

By TIM CAMERATO

NORTH HARTLAND — Officials say the construction of an organic transfer station in North Hartland could help ease a pending shortage of compost facilities in the Green Mountain State.The Greater Upper Valley Solid Waste Management District recently...

By Jared Pendak

North Hartland — Tall pine trees bowed and swayed earlier this week on a blustery day on land owned by Greater Upper Valley Solid Waste Management District off of Quarry Road.At the same time, about 100 tons of organic matter — food scraps from...

By John Lippman

Lebanon — Upper Valley Compost Co., which launched last year to make it simple for Lebanon residents to compost their food scraps, shut down last week, citing “financial and logistical challenges.”The 15-month-old company, begun by entrepreneur...

By Patrick O’Grady

Hartland — An application for a five-megawatt solar array on land owned by the Greater Upper Valley Solid Waste Management District is expected to be submitted to the Vermont Public Service Board early next month, according to Hartland Town Manager...

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

White River Junction — The stakeholders most affected by the ever-tightening requirements of Vermont’s universal recycling law are grappling with everything from maggot-ridden transfer stations to worries about the spread of invasive species, but...

Ascutney — The Southern Windsor/Windham Counties Solid Waste Management District has been awarded a solid waste implementation program grant for $21,215 from the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation.The money will be used to advertise six...

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

As Vermont Mandate Takes Hold, Market for Recyclables Hits a Trough- Thetford — Who’s going to pay for recycling in the Upper Valley? The answer used to be, in large part, the markets — public organizations and for-profit companies both worked to suss out the best way to separate cardboard, plastics, and various metals...