Under their agreement with MIRA, 49 member towns and Hartford have the option to leave their contract each March. This year, MIRA is asking the towns to agree not to leave for five years unless tipping fees reach a “trigger price”, set at a few dollars per ton over the expected fees, Kirk said. Kirk said that, if at least 80 percent of the member municipalities opt in to the new arrangement, MIRA will be able to negotiate a smaller increase to the tipping fees – the per-ton fee the towns pay MIRA to handle their trash every year. Under the new arrangement, all the trash that now goes to the incinerator in the South Meadows of Hartford will now be split up in three directions: a landfill in Pennsylvania, one in Ohio, and an incinerator in eastern Connecticut.
Stopgap Solution Found to Replace Region’s Trash Burning Plant in South Hartford