Windham Solid Waste Management District

05/20/2026

We apologize for the inconvenience, but due to an unexpected staff shortage, the WSWMD transfer station will be closed on Saturday, May 23rd. Because of the Memorial Day holiday on Monday, we will reopen Tuesday, May 26th.

05/13/2026

The Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Depot is open for the season at WSWMD! The HHW Depot at WSWMD will be open every week on Tuesdays from 8:30-10:30 AM until mid-October. Make an appointment online or call today (802-257-0272) to save your spot in order to get rid of hazardous liquids and/or powders. Check out what we accept and make an appointment with this link: https://windhamsolidwaste.org/resources/hazardous-and-universal-wastes/

05/01/2026

This is your opportunity to receive your full-year access sticker early if you are new to WSWMD. They expire on June 30, 2027, and we begin selling them on May 1, 2026. The cost of stickers is $60.

If you currently have a red sticker, it is still valid until June 30, 2026, but you can renew it at any point between May 1 and June 30, 2026. For more detailed information, visit our website.

The Transfer Station at Windham Solid Waste Management District (WSWMD) is the heart of our trash, recycling, composting, and hazardous waste operations. You will need an Access Sticker or Day Pass to use the transfer station. A sticker can be purchased at the Scale House during regular business hou...

04/22/2026

Happy Earth Day!

2 free home-composting workshops coming up at the WSWMD compost demonstration area (next to our COW Food Scrap Bin):

Wednesday May 6th 4pm - 6pm

Saturday May 9th 2pm - 4pm

Rain or shine, wear weather appropriate clothes, park at the office building, and bring your questions! All levels of experience with composting welcome - the more the merrier. Workshops may last for only 1 to 1 1/2 hours but we have the space for 2 hours just in case!

WSWMD outreach coordinator, Alex Lacy, will be joined by 1-2 VT Master Composters to help troubleshoot your specific compost challenges! We will cover the basics of home composting, various styles of home composting, and help you build your compost confidence!

04/09/2026

The WSWMD Swap Shop is reopening this Saturday, 4/11/26, at 8:30 AM. Visit our website for more information and happy swapping!!
https://windhamsolidwaste.org/transfer-station/swap-shop/

04/02/2026

It's that time of year again! Brattlegrow compost and topsoil mix are available at WSWMD for purchase and pick up. ~30lb bags of 1/2" screened compost go for $7 and our bags of topsoil mix are $10. Bulk compost can be purchased for $55/cubic yard and topsoil mix for $65. If you purchase more than 10 yards from WSWMD you can get it at whole sale price.

You can also find Brattlegrow compost at any of our distributors and some of them truly deliver! Allen Brothers Farm, Boyd Family Farm, D & E Tree, Maple Hill Nursery, or Renaud Tree. Give them a call to pick up or have your compost delivered and get a good start to your gardening season.

Brattlegrow's compost analysis and interpretation from this past January can be found here:https://windhamsolidwaste.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Compost-Analysis-January-2026-WSWMD.pdf

Happy gardening!

03/20/2026

It is with great sadness that we have to report the loss of our scale master (not just your ordinary operator!) John Skip Bonnett, on March 16, following a prolonged illness. Skip joined WSWMD in January 2007 as a CDL truck driver and led the trucking team for over 10 years until WSWMD closed the MRF in 2018. In 2019, he was rehired to work full-time at the transfer station/scale house. He had been working part-time for the past six months. We are all feeling the loss and will miss him dearly. There was only one Skip. We love you. R.I.P Skip ❤️

02/25/2026

Spring is on its way... WSWMD has a few tools in our inventory that might help you to save food scraps now in order to invest in the land later!

We have kitchen countertop food scrap containers, lovingly known as Kitchen Caddies. These hard plastic pails are easy to clean, have snapping lids with small enough holes to keep flies out, minimize odor, and are a wise addition to your kitchen space. At $10 a pop this is a durable and easy to use tool for collecting the odds and ends from your cutting board and plate scrapings. You can use any type of container for collecting food scraps and this one is an affordable and conveniently sized vessel to keep in mind. To reduce the ick-factor you can put a thin layer of newspaper in the bottom or line it with a certified-for-home-composting bag (like TUV or BPI… "home" should be on the bag label). For added fruit fly/house fly protection, store it in your freezer if you have room so there's no chance of those kitchen pests making you frown.

After food scraps are collected from the kitchen, where should they go? I find it useful to store food scraps in a 5 gallon bucket with a sealable lid before I add it to my outdoor compost system or taking it to a drop-off. At home, adding food scraps in higher volumes helps to generate heat in your pile or tumbler. Just make sure that every time you add your food scraps, no matter how little or how much, you cover it with a good dose of carbon-rich material like straw, leaves, wood shavings, etc. 2-3 times more carbon than food scraps/plant matter should do the trick.

Speaking of outdoor compost systems… we've got some of those too! WSWMD is happy to provide these tools at a lower price than you might find online.

Check out this link to see the different types of backyard composters we have in stock: https://windhamsolidwaste.org/resources/composting/bins-kitchen-pails/

Stay tuned for compost workshops that will take place once the snow melts off WSWMD's compost demonstration area!

02/23/2026

WSWMD is open today until 3 PM.

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02/13/2026

Please note we will be closed on Monday, February 16, 2026, in observance of Presidents' Day. We will reopen on Tuesday at 7 AM.