This web site is to help residents of Trenton, Maine better understand their trash (‘solid waste’).  The town’s Solid Waste Committee is actively pursuing various methods to curb costs and to make it easier for town residents and businesses to recycle and properly dispose of various waste materials, including hazardous materials.

The Town of Trenton, Maine currently does not offer trash removal services from homes or businesses.  However, when individuals or businesses pay for trash to be picked up, they may not realize that the Town is paying the fees for that trash to be processed by Eastern Maine Recycling (EMR) transfer station in Southwest Harbor, and then to be burned at the PERC incinerator in Orrington (which also covers PERC’s costs to dispose of their burned residue in a landfill).  We also pay EMR various monthly ‘access fees’ for the right to dispose of our various other waste materials there – such as recyclables, metals and construction debris. 

For information about the various components of Trenton’s solid waste ‘picture’, click on the links in the left column.

Trenton is a member of the Acadia Disposal District.

Comments and questions for the Solid Waste Committee may be directed to our email address.