BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 10, 2020
The new waste plant in Hampden has had to temporarily close this month as it struggles to pay its expenses and faces a new lawsuit from a contractor that alleges it’s owed at least $1.2 million for staffing and running the facility. That closure has forced the 115 communities that normally send waste to the Coastal Resources of Maine plant to instead divert it to landfills, as they have had to do multiple times over the past two years as the facility opened late and then in fits and starts.