Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District

“Dana has been designing our ads, booklets and flyers since 2013. The very first project we collaborated on — a recycling and composting ad campaign — won a 2014 Excellence Award for Marketing from the Solid Waste Association of North America. Dana is extremely responsive when we bring her ideas and concepts, turns work around promptly, and her fees fit within our budget. We have been extremely happy working with Dana on our array of printed and web-designed material and intend to keep doing so as long as she’ll have us!”

— Cassandra Hemenway, outreach manager, Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District

The folks at CVSWMD like to get their hands dirty — quite literally.

Cass and her outreach team spend their days educating Vermonters about waste: how to generate less of it, and what to do with it once you have it. Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District leads workshops for the public, operates the Additional Recyclables Collection Center for hard-to-recycle-items, loans out waste stations for events, and offers support for home and community composters, among other waste-reduction strategies.

I’ve collaborated with CVSWMD on both in-house and grant-funded projects. Some of my favorites have been advertisements on reducing holiday waste; signage for events; booklets on composting, safe cleaning supplies, and zero waste events; and a magnetic, tabbed reference guide for your fridge on dealing with different types of waste.