Operations manager Scott Fortin uses a front loader to start the process of sorting material brought to the Casella zero-sort facility. Trucks from Maine and New Hampshire drop off material into this bay. From there, material will pass through 23 sorters at a rate of 20 tons per hour. Recycled materials will leave the facility in bales of plastic, paper, metal and glass.
FEB. 2017 — Operator Jay Grizzard of Auburn stops to talk to a colleague at the Casella zero-sort facility in Lewiston. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal)
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