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Green Hotels in Vermont - Grant
Green Hotels in Vermont - Grant
NERC completed an EPA Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC) — funded grant to conduct a 28-month demonstration project on source reduction, food rescue and diversion, recycling and pollution prevention at Vermont hotels. NERC’s partners for this project were the Green Hotels in the Green Mountain program, the Vermont Food Bank, and the Vermont Convention Bureau.

The participant hotels in this project included: the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center in Burlington, Vermont; and the Comfort Inn & Suites in Waterbury, Vermont. NERC and the Green Hotels in the Green Mountain State program provided the hotels with direct technical assistance and staff training on how to be environmental stewards, save money, and how the hotel could become a member of the Green Hotels Program.

The project included the completion of four new resources for working on waste management issues with hotels. These include:
- Two case studies on the hotels that NERC provided direct technical assistance to for the EPA-funded Vermont Green Hotels project. The case studies describe each hotel’s recycling, composting, and green purchasing efforts — Comfort Inn & Suites Case Study and the Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center Case Study.
- The Guide to Greening Hotels through Waste Management & Green Purchasing provides a step-by-step approach to materials reduction, reuse, recycling, composting, and green purchasing at hotels. The strategies outlined in this document support the same eligibility requirements for waste management and green purchasing as the green hotel programs in the Northeast states.
- The Environmental Impacts of Recycling Fact Sheet that provides greenhouse gas reductions and energy savings from recycling materials commonly generated at hotels.
Partners: Comfort Inn & Suites (St. Johnsbury, Vermont) and Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center (Burlington, Vermont).

For more information, contact Mary Ann Remolador, NERC’s Assistant Director and Project Manager.
State Electronics Challenge – EPA Region 8 - Grant
Vermont Business Materials Exchange - Contract
School Waste Reduction, Recycling, and Composting - Grant
Laboratory Round Robin Test Project: Assessing Performance in Measuring Toxics in Packaging - Grant
National Mandatory Recycling & Disposal Bans document - Contract