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Recycling Facts
Your efforts to recycle really do make a difference. In 2008, recycling efforts in Chittenden County, Vermont:
  • SAVED ENERGY
    enough to supply electricity to about 6,000 Vermont homes for one full year!

  • REDUCED POLLUTION
    preventing about 47,000 tons of carbon dioxide and methane from being produced. That's like taking 20,000 cars off the road for a full year!

  • SAVED OVER 250,000 TREES
    by recycling paper

  • KEPT NEARLY 40,000 TONS OF RESOURCES FROM BEING WASTED IN A LANDFILL
    enough to fill 1,800 tractor trailers!

This page is currently under construction. Check back in a few months to see more recycling facts posted.