Vermont district finds recycling affordable.The Chittenden (Vermont) Solid Waste District has reported that it neither saved nor spent extra money during a recent renovation project that focused on recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. construction material, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a report in the Burlington Free Press (Burlington, Vt.). Throughout the winter, a contractor added four offices to the Solid Waste District's administration building, replaced the roof and updated the building's interior. The project cost about $170,000. According to the report, as an experiment, the district instructed the contractor to sort and recycle as much as possible. The contractor recycled about 23 percent of what would usually be thrown away. The large amount of discarded dis·card v. dis·card·ed, dis·card·ing, dis·cards v.tr. 1. To throw away; reject. 2. a. To throw out (a playing card) from one's hand. b. asphalt asphalt (ăs`fôlt, –fălt), brownish-black substance used commonly in road making, roofing, and waterproofing. Chemically, it is a natural mixture of hydrocarbons. roofing shingles shingles: see herpes zoster. shingles or herpes zoster Acute viral skin and nerve infection. Groups of small blisters appear along certain nerve segments, most often on the back, sometimes after a dull ache at the site; pain becomes were difficult to recycle on the renovation project, according to the report. In light of this, the contractor said that other projects could yield a higher recycling rate. According to the report, the contractor found no real cost difference in recycling. More information is available online at www.cswd.net. |
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