photo by Hal Gray
Ken Johnston, a Greensboro recycling center volunteer, holds a styrofoam cooler on September 28 to show it is acceptable for recycling.
GREENSBORO – The recycling center in Greenboro is one of the few places in Vermont where styrofoam is accepted.
The town is a member of the Northeast Kingdom Waste Management District (NEKWMD), one of only two places in the three northern New England States with a machine that processes styrofoam into easily transportable blocks, according to Corey Raynor, the NEKWMD outreach coordinator. A second foam cycle machine is located in Guildford, N.H., he said.
The styrofoam blocks are sold and shipped to the Soprema company in Canada, where they are turned into building products.
An open house, at 5 p.m on October 8, at the district facility, 224 Church Street, Lyndonville, will allow visitors to see the machine and visit with representatives from the USDA and Foam Cycle before the regular supervisory meeting.
A complete guide to what is and isn’t accepted by Greensboro Recycling can be found by clicking on Greensboro in the map at nekwmd.org
The Greensboro Recycling Center is in the back of the Town Office Building at 82 Craftsbury Road. The center hours are Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., except holidays, and Wednesdays from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., from the week after July 4 to the week after Labor Day,
Paul Fixx is editor of The Hardwick Gazette and lives in Hardwick.
