The State of Vermont has turned a blind eye (for 30 years now) on how to handle waste within the State on behalf of the 630,000 residents here. There is now only ONE operating landfill for the entire state, and even that one takes in an additional 26% of its waste from Out-Of-State (all be it all hazardous waste). Please join us in this protest on Saturday Aug 14th to express your dissatisfaction with failure of the State to plan for public waste disposal in a responsible way.

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EVENT Activists plan to demonstrate outside the Coventry landfill next week while its owner, Casella Waste Systems, hosts an open house.

The protest is slated to last from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sept. 14, running parallel with the event at Vermont's only landfill.

"It's a perfect time because obviously they're trying to court people," said Jon Swan, founder of Save Forest Lake, the New Hampshire–based group organizing the rally.

The Vermont-based group, Don't Undermine Memphremagog's Purity, has spent months opposing plans for a controversial expansion of the landfill, and its activists intend to join Swan, said Henry Coe, a member of the group.

"We're just concerned, and if this is an opportunity where we can raise a little more public awareness, then I think we will participate," said Coe, whose group is often referred to by its acronym, DUMP.

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