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Officials believe solving the food waste issue is the linchpin to Connecticut’s waste disposal crisis.

Officials believe solving the food waste issue is the linchpin to Connecticut’s waste disposal crisis.

Officials believe solving the food waste issue is the linchpin to Connecticut’s waste...

Getting food waste — more euphemistically, organics — out of the waste stream won’t solve the state’s waste disposal problems, but it’s widely recognized those problems won’t be solved without doing that.

Nightmarish complications piled up on the state’s quasi-public trash agency in recent days as it faced an end-of-the-world scenario — the world, at least, as the often-controversial Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority (MIRA) has known it for about half a century. Since the 1980s, MIRA has been burning municipal trash around the clock to generate electricity at its massive plant on ...

North Branford solar array plan offers town break on energy costs, would fund remedial work FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedInRedditPinterest Photo: Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut Media NORTH BRANFORD — A plan for a solar farm on Forest Road carries with it elements also expected to benefit the local environment: Energy cost savings for the town and money toward remedial work on other sites. The plan, which has the support of Economic Development Coordinator Roger Salway, would allow the town to ...