Recycling Contract Extended

(Lamoine) — Selectmen opted to extend by a little more than two years the recycling transportation contract with Pine Tree Waste. The current contract expired in March, and the expiration snuck up on both the company and the town. The Selectmen agreed to a price increase requested by Pine Tree to extend the contract. Even with the increased costs to haul recycling to Bangor, the contract should just about squeeze in under budget for 2004/05. Increased revenues from the sale of recyclable newsprint, plastics, cans and glass help to offset the contract. The new contract will expire at the same time the trash hauling contract runs out in 2006.