Looking in the rearview mirror from my home in Florida, I see a municipal solid-waste recycling, compost, and transfer facility that is failing.
Before my retirement two years ago, I managed the Windham Solid Waste Management District's operations for the past 20 years and need to set the record straight.
When George Murray, past executive director, and I left the district, we noted to the board of directors the need for change in operations to keep pace with the ever-changing recycling playing field. It was our suggestion to the board not to collect #3-#7 plastics because of unstable markets or no markets at all.
The board did not listen, and the floodgate was open to freestyle recycling - like the postal service, “if it fits, it ships.”...