BANGOR DAILY NEWS • December 29, 2020
One of two bales of shredded plastic trash lost in Penobscot Bay while on its way to a Maine incinerator in early December has been found intact on the bay floor and removed from the water, according to officials from Sprague Energy. The bales, which weigh more than a ton, were dropped while being unloaded from a cargo ship on Dec. 2, part of an 8,000-bale shipment from the United Kingdom bound for the Penobscot Energy Recovery Co. in Orrington, a waste-to-energy plant that generates electricity from burning trash.