Each step involved in making a product - from manufacturing through marketing - creates waste. Then there's the waste produced when we simply throw it away. Reuse, on the other hand, means finding a place to take your unwanted items so someone else can use them, and shopping for previously owned items that fit your needs. It means keeping useable and useful items out of the waste stream and keeping all of the resources that go into making the products in use.

CVSWMD Reuse Resources

• Check out our Reuse Business Database for businesses that buy and sell reused items.
• Stop by the ReUse Stop at the CVSWMD Barre Town Recycling Depot
• Join Freecycle, a free exchange network with regional coverage
• Find out about the next area Clothing Drop N' Swap
• Looking for funding for a project that would help increase reuse in the region? Check into the CVSWMD Reuse Opportunity Grants