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The town is joining a growing list of municipalities opting out of their contracts with a beleaguered trash-to-energy plant in Hartford.

Glastonbury's Town Council voted Tuesday to end the town’s 38-year business relationship with Connecticut’s trash authority, which will close its Hartford trash-to-energy plant in July, and contract instead with an Enfield company to dispose of trash and recyclable materials brought to the town’s collection points. The council voted 8-0, to exercise the town’s option to opt out of its contract with the Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority and contract with Murphy Road Recycling LLC, which is named after a Hartford location but is now based on Mullen Road in Enfield.

Ledyard — The town of Ledyard has ordered DRVN Enterprises to remove road salt that the company was storing in a building at 20 Lorenz Industrial Parkway, a site within 900 feet of the Ledyard Reservoir, Ledyard Mayor Fred Allyn III said. After the town was made aware Monday of salt storage on the site within the watershed, town Planning Director Liz Burdick informed DRVN Enterprises, a tenant slated to be displaced from State Pier by the end of the month, that the use was not permitted on that site and the salt needed to be removed immediately, Allyn said. Allyn said DRVN Enterprises Pres...