MDEP awards $40,000 grant to new Brooklin composting facility

WEEKLY PACKET • September 10, 2020

A 51-acre wooded lot, near 37 Hales Woods Road, in Brooklin, is in the first phase of being developed as a composting facility that will serve Blue Hill Peninsula residents. On August 26, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection announced that Chickadee Compost, owned by Brooksville native, Katherine Tomkins, was awarded a $40,000 Waste Diversion Grant. The grant funds projects that will divert waste from disposal by expanding composting and recycling opportunities across the state.