KENNEBEC JOURNAL • July 27, 2021
Hatch Hill, the city-owned landfill that also takes the trash of residents from several surrounding municipalities, is filling up faster than previously projected and could be at capacity in as few as five years. That news has prompted a sense of urgency in city officials to put together a plan for what to do when the landfill, which takes trash and recycling and is also a revenue source for the city, is full. Options are limited, in part because waste-to-energy plants are largely at capacity already. In addition, the Fiberight trash to energy facility in Hampden that was expected to take municipal solid waste from many Maine communities is not up and running. That leaves a Waste Management landfill in Norridgewock and a landfill at Juniper Ridge in Old Town as the only options.