What efforts are underway to make Church Street more environmentally sustainable, including reducing its carbon footprint?
The Marketplace has worked with All-Cycle (a local trash and recycling hauler) and the Chittenden Solid Waste District to implement a mixed recycling program. To that end, designated recycling containers have been placed alongside rubbish containers to permit recycling of almost all non-food wastes. We also use an electric truck to haul materials, refuse, and recycling. We are working with area restaurants to become part of the Vermont Fresh Network, a farm to table organization promoting locally grown foods. In 2008 we will be installing the first ultra-efficient LED streetlights in an alleyway undergoing renovations. This test site, when proved successful, will lead to extensive use of LED lighting on the main Marketplace and hopefully throughout the city. Future projects will include replacing the holiday lighting entirely with LED lights. We use locally manufactured brick for pavers, recycle damaged brick into gravel products, have a extended food waste composting program to includ
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- Are there practical informational resources available for individuals and church congregations to become more "green" and to take steps in reducing their carbon footprint?
- What efforts are underway to make Church Street more environmentally sustainable, including reducing its carbon footprint?
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