Recycling

For years, environmentalists have worried about the amount of plastic and glass bottles ending up in landfills across the state. They’re calling to increase recycling rates for these products – which is why lawmakers at the Statehouse are revisiting Vermont's bottle deposit law.

In 2020, Vermont became the first state in the country to legally require residents to compost food scraps. This is the first published research into that law, and another that bans single-use plastics for restaurant takeout.

A new report from Greenpeace found that people may be putting plastic into recycling bins — but almost none of it is actually being recycled. Meanwhile, plastic production is ramping up.

Vermont waste hauler Casella Waste Systems is partnering with international recycling company TerraCycle on a new subscription program to recycle items that previously weren't recyclable. Host Connor Cyrus talks with Kathy Pazakis, executive vice president of commercial at TerraCycle, about the program.

We take a deep dive into Vt.'s recycling system.

You may be ultra diligent when it comes to putting food scraps and compostable products into your compost since the Vermont law went into effect in July 2020. But that compostable foodware — the cups, plates and utensils that hold your take-out and to-go orders — are only meant to be the vehicle for getting your food scraps into the compost bin.

More than 130 million metric tons of single-use plastics were thrown out in 2019, according to a new report that puts Exxon Mobil atop a list of the companies that produce it.

Attorney General TJ Donovan is close to wrapping up an investigation into charges that the state’s largest solid waste district illegally dumped glass for…

An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.

How the pandemic may change recycling in Vermont, at least for a while. Plus, how one business has quickly pivoted from baked goods and flowers to meal…