Vermont’s Chittenden Solid Waste District Seeks New Recycle Center Site

SEATTLE (Waste Advantage): CSWD Executive Director Sarah Reeves is working with district’s board of directors to find an alternative location for its recycling center, a setback that will push the project completion back at least a year until mid-2026, she estimates. The recycling center is designed to replace the existing center off Industrial Road in Williston. It will be built to handle nearly 50 percent more material and implement automated sorting in place of the hand-sorting that currently happens at the center. The current center accepts recyclables from residential and commercial waste haulers throughout Chittenden County. Material also comes in from other counties, Reeves said.

“Our board remains strongly committed to the materials recycling facility, and we are so appreciative that the voters of Chittenden County strongly supported the bond,” Reeves said. “We value that trust from our community, and we are committed to this project. It’s going to be an amazing facility once it is constructed.”

The district needs at least 10 acres of industrially zoned property, Reeves said, ideally centrally located in the county. It prefers vacant land over retrofitting an existing structure. A parcel with those criteria has proven difficult to find since the search began in September. “There’s not a lot of industrial zoned land available,” Reeves said. “We are still on the hunt for that.”

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