Sanford-Despite the town councils ongoing move towards a Pay-As-You-Throw solid waste disposal policy, some town residents feel that there are more questions that need to be answered. These questions involve mainly; how will the town enforce the illegal dumping of garbage, and how whether or not the plan will increase recycling and reduce the cost of shipping garbage to The Maine Energy Recycling Corporation. The current plan in place will hopefully reduce not only the cost the town pays to send waste to MERC but increase the amount of recycling that occurs. He plan calls for the purchase of specially designated garbage bags which can be purchased in local stores. The plan call for the cost of the Pay-As-You-Throw bags will cost $1.25 for the 15 gallon bag and $2.00 for the 33 gallon bag.
Sanford resident Timothy Morrissey of Mt Hope Road had several opinions on the issue. He felt that there is no real way for the town to enforce the illegal dumping of garbage and that this measure has the potential to cause more problems than solutions. “Unless a person leaves a copy of their mailing address or telephone number in their garbage there is no real way to discover and punish the person dumping their garbage.” He went on to say that investigations of such illegal dumping by local law enforcement would simply be a waste of the town’s time and resources.
However Mr. Morrissey’s main concern was whether or not the new policy would really change the current solid waste situation in the town. Most of this concern stemmed from the cost of the waste disposal bags and whether or not it will address the recycling problem in Sanford. “I think that unfortunately that those can pay for the bags will fill them with whatever they want, while only a small amount of citizens will take the time to actually sort out their recyclables.” Mr. Morrissey went on to say though that he felt the plan to increase the recycling pick up from biweekly to once a week will help this potential problem.
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