SALISBURY — The town landfill in Salisbury has finally been capped, marking the end of unlined landfills in Vermont. To protect the environment, Vermonters over the past few decades have been closing their old-fashioned town dumps and sending their trash to lined landfills. After Bristol closed its town dump in 2015, Salisbury’s was the only one left. After two or three years of lobbying to follow suit, Salisbury residents voted to close and cap their town landfill at town meeting last year. The “town dump … (read more)
