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ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS -> RECYCLING

> Environmental Policy

Green Initiatives:
> Wildlife & Habitat Protection
> Energy Efficiency
> Recycling
> Water Quality & Conservation
> Biodiesel Initiative
> Global Warming &
Climate Change
> NuRide 250,000 mile Sponsor

> Awards

> Education

> Sustainable Slopes

Smugglers' introduces Green Badges, Green Passes and Green Tickets that help fight global warming.

Smugglers' announces our 250,000 mile sponsorship of the nation's first ride network that rewards people for sharing rides - NuRide.

Contact Us
Several employees at Smugglers' work together to make our many and varied environmental programs happen. Please contact us for more information.

Call: 802-644-1204

Email: environment@smuggs.com

Recycling Programs
at Smugglers' Notch, Vermont

Our guests can participate

in an extensive recycling program. Each residential building includes recycling / trash closets for drop off. Recyclable material need not be sorted, but merely separated from trash, recycling guidelines are posted on guest home refrigerators.

The following can be recycled; please do your part to reduce solid waste.


	•	Paper: newspaper, magazines, brochures, writing tablets, lined paper
	•	Plastic: #1 & #2, no lids; no "wide-mouth" containers such as yogurt or margarine
	•	Glass: any color, clean, no lids, no broken bottles
	•	Tin, aluminum, steel
	•	Corrugated cardboard

Recycling programs exist
for our employees as well
Office materials from paper to computers are collected on a regular basis. Programs specific to departments and activities have been established as well. These include:


	•	New construction material scrap is collected and sent to ReCycle North, a regional reuse center ( www.recyclenorth.org)
	•	New construction carpet pad is made from recycled tires
	•	The landscaping crew composts yard waste on site
	•	Pre-consumer food waste is collected from restaurants, shipped to regional (Intervale) composting facility in Burlington; Smugglers' purchases compost from this facility on an annual basis
	•	Sheetrock scrap is recycled - Smugglers' has had very good success in recycling sheetrock from the Resort's construction projects. Over the last few years the savings per ton has jumped from $10.28 in 1998 to $50.33 in 2002. All of Smugglers' sheetrock is recycled at G.P. Gypsum, Newington, N.H.. 22.5 tons of sheetrock were recycled in 2002 and 6 tons in 2003. In 2004 Smuggs was able to recycle 20 tons!