BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 6, 2023
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection, waste treatment districts and lawmakers are still scrambling to find places to put the sludge after Casella Waste Systems told waste plants across the state last month that the Old Town landfill operated by the company could no longer bear the amount of sludge tainted with “forever chemicals” that is flowing in. The state either needs more debris to contain the sludge or for out-of-state landfills to take it. Neither is an option currently, and a DEP spokesperson called Casella’s posture “disappointing” in a Monday email that amounted to the state’s first criticism of the Vermont-based company.