Maine town needs $2M to remove a giant mound of toxic carpets

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 22, 2024

For nearly three decades, more than 25,000 tons of carpet waste has sat on the site of an abandoned rifle range in Warren. The town wants to get rid of the carpets so it can finally develop there, but without financial help, town officials have their hands tied. It’s a carpet wasteland. And the town’s only financial hope of cleaning it up — an application for $2 million in federal Brownfields cleanup funds — was denied in May.