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new study found that 20% of what Granite Staters throw in the trash is recyclable. Those materials are also worth a lot of money – roughly $23 million. And these are the kinds of things commonly included in recycling programs, like newspapers, cans and plastic water bottles.

Starting Jan. 1, New Hampshire will place a $3.50 per ton surcharge on all solid waste taken at any of the state’s six active landfills or its waste-to-energy facility.

The surcharge was included in the state budget signed into law in June. The state plans to use the revenue to fund salaries for waste management officials at the Department of Environmental Services and to support grant projects focused on improving waste disposal infrastructure across the state.

NH Legislative session’s Landfill bills dead in State House, Legal Battles Continue

As of July 1st, it is illegal for anyone in New Hampshire – resident, business, hauler, or transfer station (just to name a few) – to throw lithium-ion batteries into the waste stream to end up in a landfill or waste-to-energy incinerator.

Textiles are one of the fastest growing waste streams in the country, approaching 10 percent of total municipal solid waste. Local business diverts 10 Million Pounds from landfill.

We all live with garbage, and there is nothing simple or inexpensive about it. The nearly 2 million tons of garbage generated in NH and trucked here from out of state is part of a complicated, expensive, and expansive network of players, handlers, and facilities.