BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 8, 2023
The group that represents more than 100 Maine cities and towns to manage their waste needs to find $20 million to restart its shuttered trash plant in Hampden or it will be forced to liquidate the facility within months. The nonprofit Municipal Review Committee has long estimated it would need outside funding to jumpstart the Hampden trash plant formerly run by a company called Fiberight. The money would fund staff to operate the plant and cover its costs until the facility becomes profitable. If the Fiberight plant, which had promised to deliver a higher recycling rate than any other trash operation in Maine, does not restart, it would mean the loss of a facility that has cost $100 million in private and public funds altogether so far.