Vermont
Green Up Vermont tries new method to reduce plastic waste
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – Inexperienced Up Vermont unveiled their latest methodology of working in direction of eliminating single use plastics Monday.
The group has devoted the primary of thirty-three water bottle filling stations that will probably be positioned at high- use public locations all through the state.
The stations have been funded by a grant from the Chittenden Strong Waste District and the Vermont Company of Pure Sources with the hopes that with each use, the variety of single use plastic bottles discovered within the trash and on the streets will go down.
“The typical particular person use 156 plastic water bottles a yr so multiply that by the 625 thousand residents of Vermont, that’s a complete lot of water bottles and a complete lot of carbon footprint that we may reduce down on simply through the use of the bottle filling stations” stated Kate Alberghini, the manager director of Inexperienced Up Vermont.
The primary of the stations is situated on the Lampher Memorial Library in Hyde Park
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