Burlington Dump (CSWD Drop-Off Center on Pine Street, Vermont) — Hours, Fees & Limits
Burlington's drop-off is the CSWD Drop-Off Center at 339 Pine Street, open Tuesday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. It's the district's smallest site: bagged household trash only, no trailers and no oversized items.
Bags cost $4 up to 18 gallons and $8 up to 35 gallons, plus $1 a visit. For furniture, mattresses or a trailer load, drive to CSWD's Williston, Essex or Milton sites.
From CSWD's fee schedule; the $1 facility fee started July 1, 2026. Blue-bin recycling is free (up to a cubic yard) when you bring at least 18 gallons of trash, or $2 without it; food scraps up to 30 gallons are free with trash. TVs, computers, monitors and printers are free under Vermont's E-Cycles program, up to seven items. Single bulky items are priced by the attendant. CSWD takes cash, checks and cards (3% card fee).
The Pine Street site takes bagged household trash, recycling and food scraps (no yard waste), plus small special items: household and car batteries, cell phones, fluorescent bulbs, mercury thermostats, propane tanks up to 20 pounds, small scrap metal, clothing, books and shredded paper. It doesn't take electronics or household hazardous waste. Natural, untreated wood and brush go to the McNeil Wood Waste Depot, which burns it for Burlington Electric and charges no tip fee.
Paint thinners, pesticides, pool chemicals and other household hazardous waste go to the CSWD Environmental Depot at 1011 Airport Parkway in South Burlington, by appointment, Wednesday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Motor oil and filters, fluorescent bulbs and mercury thermostats are also taken in small amounts at every CSWD drop-off center except this one.
Vermont bans a long list of things from household trash and landfills: car batteries and waste oil (since 1990), large appliances and paint (1991), tires (1992), mercury products, TVs, computers and other electronics (2011), recyclables (2015), leaves, yard debris and clean wood (2016) and food scraps (2020). Everything else ends up at the state's only operating landfill, in Coventry.
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