A trash truck empties trash cans on S. Park Street in Bangor on Thursday. Bangor, like a number of other communities in the region, stopped its separate collection of recyclables in advance of the opening of a new waste processing plant in Hampden that promised to separate recyclables from loads of trash. The plant ran for about six months before shutting down in May 2020. Since then, those communities have been without recycling. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik | BDN