Summary of Current Activities

The ADD Board of Directors is reviewing various options to overhaul our waste disposal and recycling systems and save tax dollars.

• We are coordinating a new regional recycling program in cooperation with the City of Ellsworth. Read more here.
  
  
• We are considering the option of door-to-door pick-up of household waste (MSW) and direct transport to the Penobscot Energy Recovery Co. (PERC), and utilizing a transfer facility only for bulky wastes, demo debris, waste wood and recycling materials;
  
  
• We are searching for other sites, both on and off Mt. Desert Island, that might be suited to developing a new regional transfer station;
  
  
• We are evaluating Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT), a system in which a fee is charged for disposal of all trash, as a way to reduce or eliminate the cost of solid-waste management from town budgets;
  
  
• We are working with local solid waste and recycling committees in each town to help advise their town's officials and citizens.
  
  
• We are providing grants for special projects in the local schools focused on solid waste and recycling issues.