BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 15, 2020
State environmental officials are looking for a way for 115 communities now sending their trash to landfills after the recent closure of a Hampden waste plant to instead send it to an Orrington facility that burns waste to create electricity. It’s not clear when or whether the Coastal Resources of Maine plant in Hampden will reopen after financial and contractual problems forced it to suspend operations at the end of May.