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Old 09-01-2007, 02:57 PM
 
Location: Maine
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I've been going over the sevice info on Belfast city website, and they have a "transfer station". Never heard of that. Apparently, you recycle everything you can, then pay per bag to take the rest to the dump. We have city trash pick-up two days a week here and pay $10 a month extra on our water bill for it. That is not optional. It all goes into the trash cans and they come in the big green truck and pick it up.

We do recycle our paper goods, though it's not a rule, and most people don't bother, but that is the only recycling service in our area. Can you guys fill me in on how that all works there? Thanks!
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Old 09-01-2007, 03:10 PM
 
Location: Greater Metropolitan Bangor
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Most people recycle as much as possible, and the remainder will go to a dump or "transfer station", to be later "transferred" by the disposal service from there to a dump or "landfill". Does that help?
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Old 09-01-2007, 03:16 PM
 
Location: PALM BEACH, FL.
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One of the THOUSANDS of things that make Belfast GREAT.
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Old 09-01-2007, 03:41 PM
 
Location: Penobscot Bay, the best place in Maine!
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In some places, it seems that "transfer station" is the new, fancy word for "town dump"! lol..
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Old 09-01-2007, 03:49 PM
 
Location: Maine
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Gotcha! That's great that recycling is so predominant in Maine. I wish folks down here were more environmentally conscious. Maybe there would be less trash littering our roads!
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Old 09-01-2007, 04:24 PM
 
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The old Belfast dump was closed long ago -- you can still see the site if you drive out Poors Mills Road and look across the fields and up at the hillside to your left. It was replaced with a transfer station, where trash is dumped in huge metal containers and then hauled by truck to either an approved landfill or a waste-to-energy (incineration) plant.

Maine has a state program that encourages towns to recycle. Towns like it because the more that's recycled, the less that has to be hauled away to a landfill or incinerator that charges disposal fees on a per-ton basis. Some towns now have a pay-per-bag program for trash that exempts recyclables. So the more you recycle, the less you pay for trash disposal.
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Old 09-01-2007, 05:37 PM
 
Location: West Michigan
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It also doesn't hurt to look at communities close to where you want to live for costs as well. Here in Washburn we pay $120 a year for the Transfer Station permit and have to go to Presque Isle. Just a few miles the other way and you are in Caribou, Dump permit is $5. Plus there are independent trash haulers all over the State. I don't know what they charge downstate, but here the average is $13 a month. For the most part if you can lug it to the curb, they will pick it up here.
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Old 09-01-2007, 06:18 PM
 
Location: Forests of Maine
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Out here in the 'Unorganized Townships' the state provides curbside pick-up.

Once a week and with no quantity limits.

Free.
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Old 09-01-2007, 07:05 PM
 
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a true mainer has a burn-barrel, off the front porch
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Old 09-01-2007, 08:57 PM
 
Location: Teton Valley Idaho
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lol...ayuh...ya play ya cards right and burn right before suppa you can cook ya chicken right theyah ....
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