9321-R4_ML&P_TownOfBuxton_2024-2025

Solid Waste Manager’s 2025 Report

The Town of Buxton voted to join EcoMaine at the 2025 Annual Town Meeting. We now use a single stream recycling compactor at the Transfer Station. All of our recycling goes into what used to be our garbage compactor. Once our recycling compactor is full, it is hauled to the EcoMaine facility in Portland. We accept all cardboard, boxboard, glass, and plastic # 1 thru #7. Residents no longer have to sort any of this material. Our composting facility received approximately 1600 yards of leaves and grass, 6 yards of food waste, and 800 yards of animal manure and bedding. Composting eliminates the need to pay for hauling and disposal fees for leaves, grass, and manure, and provides compost as a useful end product for our community. We accept leaves, grass, sawdust from untreated wood, pine needles, garden clippings, manure, and non-animal kitchen scraps (fruits & vegetables) for our compost pile. We can’t accept meat, bones, vegetable oils, or dog/cat/human feces for composting. Compost and wood chips are available to Buxton residents for free if you shovel your own load. We charge $10 per bucket for us to load your vehicle with our loader. We recommend screening the compost on site to avoid getting trash in your compost. We don’t have a grinder or screen for our compost, so expect to find bits of trash, sticks, and other debris that residents have swept out of their truck beds. There is no charge to drop off wood chips or other compostable materials at the transfer station. Leaves, grass, and other organics will not be picked up if left out for curbside collection. The Transfer Station accepts returnable bottles for donation to the “Keep The Heat On” fund. This fund helps buy fuel for elderly Buxton residents in need of assistance. If you wish to donate returnable bottles to the “Keep the Heat On” fund, please ask for the bags and tags at Town Hall or the Transfer Station. Bags can be dropped off at the Transfer Station or any Clynk drop-off site like Hannaford. The Share Shop is open for books and other non-fabric items. Clothes and bedding are not accepted. Items dropped off for the Share Shop will be charged a fee to cover disposal costs unless the item is able to be recycled if no one takes it home. Please visit the Town web site at www.buxton.me.us, and click on the Solid Waste Department heading for information on recycling and other solid waste topics. Questions and comments can be e-mailed to gheffernan@buxton.me.us The Transfer Station is open Tuesdays, Thursdays, & Saturdays from 8am to 4pm. We are closed any Tuesday after a Sunday or Monday holiday. Our phone number is 929-3913. We are located at 185 Portland Road, behind Town Hall and the salt shed. Bird Watchers are welcome to come see/photograph the Bald Eagles that frequent the compost area.

Respectfully submitted by:

Greg Heffernan Solid Waste Manager

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