PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • April 15, 2023
John Casella apparently thinks that the only way to safely operate our state landfill is to continue importing waste from hundreds of miles away (“Commentary: Managing municipal biosolids is a complex issue that requires collaboration”). The Casella premise is that only oversized bulky waste can stabilize sludge in landfills. Now, this profit stream is threatened. There are better options to stabilize sludge. Before the landfill became an unstable mess, managers should have hauled in better bulking materials that they had readily available. Instead, they endangered their workers and our environment. Casella is not a reliable “partner.” Stability should not be secondary to profit. ~ Ed Spencer, Old Town