The Kennebec Valley Regional Waste Corp. has hired Robert Field, a Carmel consultant, to estimate the cost of such a facility. His report is expected to be completed within weeks. The corporation handles recycling for 20 towns and townships in the Bingham area.
Towns have their own contracts for disposal of nonrecyclable garbage.
Most do so at Waste Management, Inc.'s, Norridgewock landfill. Dunton said such a burner wouldn't be like the huge Penobscot Energy Recovery Co. incinerator in Orrington near Bangor. It's a different technology. The organization has a possible site picked out, Dunton said, but he wouldn't identify it. None of the smaller incinerators is operating in Maine, though there are some in Massachusetts and Connecticut, Dunton said.