Mass. Town Upgrading Transfer Station

The WeCare facility, since its inception, has functioned less as a bona fide, single-stream materials recovery facility and more as a “transfer station,” where trash is dumped and then shipped out to disposal facilities to be sorted and processed for sale.

But with the installation within the next two weeks of a “separator,” which recognizes one type of trash from another, and a baling machine, which will pack the finished product into tight, easily transportable bales, the site finally will function as a one-stop-drop materials recovery facility.

Up until now, Gregory said, mounds of cardboard, glass, paper and plastic have been loaded by backhoe onto his hauling trucks and driven north to a facility at the Port of Albany in New York.

“That’s coming to an end,” he said.