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Hartford trash-to-energy plant plans to ship waste out of state, scrapping renovation effort over lack of funding

The regional trash-to-energy and recycling plant in Hartford’s South Meadows is abandoning its effort to renovate the aging facility, with officials of the quasi-state system saying a desperate lack of state funding is now forcing a return to trucking garbage out of state.

At a special meeting Thursday, the board of directors for the Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority unanimously agreed to move on from a $333 million proposed plan to modernize and upgrade the old trash-incinerating plant and instead convert it into a transfer station.

“It’s a travesty,” Richard Barlow, vice chairman of the board of directors, said before the body’s vote.