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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 solidwaste@trentonme.com.
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