Green Mountain College Joins Casella’s Initiative

Green Mountain College, located in Poultney, Vt., has announced plans to join Casella Waste Systems’ Power of Three closed loop recycling initiative. Casella, based in Rutland, Vt., says through its Power of Three initiative is the company collects a customer's recyclables, processes the recyclables into new products and sells the products back to the customer in the form of new hand towels, tissue paper and toiletry items. 
 

The Green Mountain College program is accomplished through a partnership among Casella, SCA Paper, Foley Distributing and UGL Services. 
 

Through Zero-Sort, all of Green Mountain College's paper, plastic, glass and metal will be combined together in a single container. Casella's Zero-Sort processing facility in Rutland mechanically sorts all of the material. Once sorted, the baled paper is shipped to the paper company SCA’s Glen Falls, N.Y., plant where it is recycled into 100 percent recycled paper content products that will be delivered back to Green Mountain College by Foley Distributing and UGL Services. 
 

“The words 'reuse' and 'recycle' are a big part of our vocabulary, and we're always looking for ways to make campus operations more sustainable,” Paul Fonteyn, Green Mountain College president, says. “This project is a great demonstration of how non-profit institutions and for-profit companies can work together to create a greener economy.” 
 

“One of our goals as a company is to help our customers ensure that as few resources as possible are wasted,” John Casella, Casella chairman and CEO, says. “We are intent in our mission of taking the things our customers do not want and transforming them back into things that they do. Our partnership with SCA paper and Foley Distributing allows us to do just that.”