BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 5, 2026
A contractor has been chosen to permanently close a troubled Bucksport landfill that once took waste from a local paper mill, almost three years after the state ordered the scrap metal company that owns it to shut it down. That’s a big step toward closing the site permanently and is an indicator that continued attempts to reopen it have come to an end. Orono-based Sargent Corp. was chosen to do the work for American Iron and Metal, a subsidiary of which bought the Verso mill site and its holdings in 2015. Engineers hired by AIM estimated last year that the closure would cost more than $13.4 million, according to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.