Where is Away? A 7-minute educational video designed for elementary school classes (this video is for grades 3-6) to teach children where trash, recycling, and compost goes once it leaves the house, the school or the business. (A K-2nd grade version is available on our YouTube Channel.) The Secret Life of Batteries Our battery […]
WSWMD News
Notice of Public Hearing- 12/8/22 @ 6:30pm
Windham Solid Waste Management District will conduct a public hearing to review the FY 24 Budget The public hearing will take place on December 8, 2022, @ 6:30 PM in person at 327 Old Ferry Rd, Brattleboro, VT and via Zoom (see link below). Click here for supporting documents (FY 24 Budget & Member […]
Glass Recycling is back!
Press Release Brattleboro, Vermont October 28, 2022 To reduce the increasingly high costs of recycling WSWMD will be re-instating a program to separate glass bottles and jars from single stream. Starting November 1, users of the District transfer station on Old Ferry Road, Brattleboro, will find a separate container for glass bottles and jars only, […]
WSWMD Facility closed for scale repairs 9/13/22
The entire facility will be closed on Tuesday, 9/13/22 so that we can repair our scale. We apologize for any inconvenience, and will reopen on Wednesday at 7am. Please plan accordingly as no services will be available; trash, recycling or composting!
Swap out your fluorescent bulbs for LEDs
The day is not far off when you will be able to say, “Ah yes, sonny, I’m old enough to remember when we used fluorescent light bulbs.” Within a couple years, those buzzing 4-foot tubes hanging in workspaces, as well as those curly screw-in bulbs in our homes will no longer be for sale in […]
Press Release 6/8/22- VT DEC awards annual grant
WSWMD receives annual grant from Vermont DEC for convenient, cost-effective household hazardous waste disposal CONTACT: John Fay, Programs & Operations Manager, WSWMD Brattleboro, VT –PRESS RELEASE: June 8, 2022 This May, the Windham Solid Waste Management District (WSWMD) re-opened its household hazardous waste (HHW) Depot. The HHW Depot first opened in May 2021 and in […]
Special Hazardous Waste Event-Wilmington
Wilmington, July 16, 2022, 8:00 till 12 noon Any resident of WSWMD member towns can join us on Saturday morning, July 16, 2022, at the old high school lower parking lot (1 School St) in Wilmington for drop-off of their household hazardous waste. No appointment needed. $10 per car, 10 gallon limit (about a trunkful). Questions? […]
WSWMD Tire Program
Tire Roundup: New Tire Consolidation Program Saves VT Towns Money March 29, 2022 At the March 9th MOM meeting, NRRA members gathered at the Windham Solid Waste Management District (WSWMD) to hear Bob Spencer talk about several of their programs, including their new tire consolidation program. Small towns usually take many months or a year […]
HHW Depot opens in May
HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE DEPOT reopens Thursday, May 5th @9am. Make an HHW Appointment
Swap Shop Reopening
SWAP SHOP is reopening! First “Donation Day” on Saturday, April 9 @8:30am. Swap Shop Details
Press Release-New Tire Bunker-1/11/2022
PRESS RELEASE January 11, 2022 Brattleboro, Vermont Windham Solid Waste Management District recently expanded its tire recycling facility to better serve its member town transfer stations, and the public. A new bunker has been installed that will hold more than 1,000 tires to have enough for collection by a licensed tire recycling contractor. […]
2021 Management and Materials Infrastructure Grant Awarded
Brattleboro, VT – The Windham Solid Waste Management District (WSWMD) has been awarded a materials management implementation grant of $78,136 by the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), a division of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources. Grant funds will be used to improve the management of food scraps and household hazardous waste at the […]