According to centralmaine.com, the website for the Kennebec Journal and the Morning Sentinel reports that selectmen in Skowhegan, Maine, voted unanimously Tuesday, July 26, 2016, to approve a three-year contract with Casella Recycling LLC, Charlestown, Massachusetts, a division of Casella Waste Systems, Rutland, Vermont.
Casella and Skowhegan have been in a recycling agreement for the past 10 years, the article says. The company purchases recyclables—cardboard, plastics, glass, newspaper and mixed paper–deposited at Skowhegan’s transfer station, paying the town an average of $55,000 per year.
“Paper plates and paper products and cardboard are mixed into a brine and reused for some other product,” Code Enforcement Officer Randy Gray said to centralmaine.com. “Newspapers are put right back into newspapers sometimes as well. It’s a revenue marker. It’s almost two to one.”
Gray says the $55,000 is a double revenue source, in that it saves a dollar for every dollar the town makes from recycling.
“It’s almost $100,000-plus a year that we make,” Gray says in the article.
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