Protect the Universal Recycling Law

During the 2021 legislative session, Rural Vermont and allies demanded that legislators from the House and Senate Natural Resource committees clarify their legislative intent behind the Universal Recycling Law with the Agency of Natural Resources (read the letter here). In a legislative hearing, on April 28 (watch recording here), ANR had stated that the organics management hierarchy would be a menu of options and like the source separation requirement - which mandates that food residuals need to be separated from trash and recycling at the source of generation - would not be enforceable. This is in stark contrast to the letter of the Universal Recycling law. Now lip service has to be followed by action and ANR has to be held accountable for implementing the law!