As Landfill Nears Capacity, Nantucket, Mass., Ships C&D

Waste Options of Warwick, R.I., the company that manages Nantucket, Mass.’s rapidly filling construction and demolition debris landfill has been shipping debris off-island, according to a report in the Inquirer and Mirror (Nantucket, Mass.).

Debris has been being shipped to the Bourne landfill on Cape Cod for two weeks because Nantucket’s landfill is nearing capacity.

The Inquirer and Mirror reports that as of Oct. 19, 245 tons of C&D material has been shipped off Nantucket at an estimated cost of $2,500 per truckload.

Town selectmen along with Waste Options have been considering several options to maintain the landfill, including raising the cost of disposing C&D debris and processing C&D material into alternative daily cover, according to the report.