Brooks provides a service to its residents to allow disposal of household waste at its Transfer Station. A sticker must be obtained at the town office to be mounted on your automobile to assure that you are a resident of Brooks. Everyone that uses the Brooks transfer station must recycle according to the rules specified in the notice provided in the sidebar to the right.
Effective January 1, 2015 Brooks will utilize "single stream" or "zero sort" recycling. Recyclable material must be clean but no longer separated into collections of plastic, cardboard,glass, etc. (Household trash continues to be placed in the town's 10 dumpsters).
Brooks Transfer Station accepts:
Household trash
Various metal including stoves, refrigerators, washers, dryers, pots & pans
Florescent light bulbs (not broken)
Clean glass, plastic, cardboard, aluminum cans
Television sets, computer monitors
Brooks Transfer Station does not accept:
Building materials or construction debris
Leaf and yard waste
Oil or chemical products
Paint
Batteries
Wood ashes
Household hazardous waste
Links:
Question/Answer about Universal waste and household hazardous waste
Brooks recycling report to the State of Maine Brooks recycling report to the State of Maine
What the universal waste center at Thorndike will accept (2010)
Single sort items acceptable/nonacceptable Brooks Transfer Station
Acceptable_and_Nonacceptable_Material_List__Winterport_Facility_DMJ_Waste.pdf
Brooks Transfer Station hours and directions:
Saturday: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Sunday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Wednesday: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
From the Brooks town center at the intersection of routes 7 and 139, follow route 139 west for about 2 miles to Underpass Road. Turn right, and follow that for about 1/2 mile to Bypass Road. Turn left onto the unpaved road. The transfer station is a short distance to the right.
Click here for a Q/A about universal waste and household hazardous waste. The Unity area of 9 towns (including Brooks) is building a facility at Thorndike to handle universal waste - household hazardous waste will still be handled as a special scheduled collection day. This facility is now open. Here are the rules of what may and may not be taken to this center.