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It calls the Vermont law to ban PFAS in food packaging — which takes effect July 1 — “a good first step.”

In addition, Kelly said, the cost to municipalities of collecting household hazardous waste, such as paint, paint thinner and pesticides, has skyrocketed over the past five years. He said when a resident brings a carload of these chemicals to the dump, it can cost a municipality up to $400 to recycle them.

The report also says rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are causing fires at solid

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waste and recycling facilities. The department supports including them in the Vermont battery recycling program, which it calls one of the most successful in the country.

Kelly said the market for recycling in general has dropped considerably. Recently, he said, there has been a push to include bottles containing water, flavored water, tea drinks and juice in the state bottle law, which charges a five-cent deposit for every bottle sold. The problem, Kelly said, is that redemption centers do not have the space to sort these additional bottles. In recent years, he said, they have also struggled to hire the staff needed to handle the volume.

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Currently, bottles are sorted by brand, which means they end up in more than 100 different sorts, Kelly said. That is done to charge each brand for the number of its bottles that are recycled, he said.

“That means that employee needs to keep in their head 100 or more brands and sort them by brand in order for the system to work,” Kelly said. He said if the bottle law is expanded to include additional beverage bottles, it would not work without other modifications.

Kelly said both recycling and the expansion of the bottle law could be supported by making manufacturers cover the cost of collecting recyclables. He suggested changing the system so that bottles could be sorted by material, such as glass, plastic or aluminum, rather than by brand.

“We have a consumer economy that doesn’t require producers to be responsible for the products they are selling or even the packaging that is related to those products,” Sheldon said.

Sheldon’s committee is hearing testimony this week on a hazardous waste bill that would make producers fund reclamation programs that solid waste management districts run. Kelly is scheduled to testify.

“There seems to be agreement that this is an urgent matter that we can do something about,” Sheldon said.

Obituaries

Ann Elizabeth Everleth Wilcox Harwood

Ann Elizabeth Everleth Wilcox Harwood (88) passed away quietly in her sleep on January 24, 2023 at Mansfield Place Memory Care in Essex Junction, Vt.

She was born in Albany, NY in 1935. She earned her BS/Ed at Plattsburgh State Teachers College in NY and her MS/Ed at Central Connecticut State College. Ann worked as an elementary school teacher at Vernon Elementary School and later as a reading consultant at Center Road School in Vernon, Ct.

In retirement she volunteered at the Dorothy Alling Memorial Library in Williston and at Copley Hospital in Morrisville, Vt.

She worshiped and served at the Stowe Community Church and also at UCC in Burlington and Williston Federated Church.

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She enjoyed traveling with her daughters, sailing, cooking, gardening, reading and caring for her many pets. She served as the president of the Hartford Whalers NHL hockey team’s booster club and was a member of Eastern Star. She was always friendly and kind with a ready smile and a fondness for her own and other peoples’ pets.

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