FRYEBURG – Fryeburg Head Selectman Harry True still has more than a carton of black trash bags to use up in the next four or five months.
But that’s just fine with him.
“The green bags are not as tough” as the trash bags he buys from the local veterans group, he said.
He used to affix a little yellow ticket to his trash bags. But at this year’s town meeting, voters agreed to phase out the ticket system in favor of purchasing green bags from the town office instead.
The town still has about 5,000 of the tickets left, so the green bag system “will not start until we’ve sold all the tickets we have,” which will take four or five months, True said.
The green bags will have lettering allowing authorized residents only to use the transfer station, on Route 5, which also serves Chatham and Stow.
“We don’t raise enough money” to run the transfer station without having residents, in effect, buy the right to dispose of their trash there.
Town meeting voters also approved an increase, from $6 to $8 a load, for small commercial haulers using the transfer station.
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