KINGFIELD -– Administrative Assistant Doug Marble explained he invited New Portland municipal leaders, representatives of Sandy River Recycling Association and others to listen to a presentation given by Alison McCrady of ECO-Maine.

The Portland-based recycler owns a single sort material recovery facility. McCrady explained that evening the benefits of single stream recycling and was there to see if Kingfield and New Portland would be appropriate partners like other municipal towns in the state.

Single sort recycling means that residents don’t need to separate their recyclables into specific grades. The concept of collecting all recyclable material in one container is said to attract more people to recycle, thereby lowering municipal solid waste costs on transfer stations. It also makes home management and management of the transfer station more efficient.

At home, residents only use one container to collect fiber grades and mixed containers. The comingled recyclables are then brought to the transfer station where they’re placed in one container, usually a compactor. Once transported to the MRF, ECOMAINE has the machinery to separate the material into marketable commodities. The recyclers also accept numbers 1-7 plastic.

McCrady showed a video of the MRF and then presented a slide show that evening.

Also present that evening was SRRA manager Ron Slater and some board members from the association.

SRRA treasurer Richard Doughty said that transporting loose or compacted material all the way to Portland would be cost prohibitive for the Kingfield/New Portland Transfer Station. The cost for Kingfield to buy a compactor would also be a detriment.

Doughty presented the board his calculations showing his rationale in a prepared document.

Board chairman Heather Moody asked to table further discussion and said that this meeting should take place under the umbrella of the Transfer Station Committee which is made up of the selectmen from the two towns and a representative of the county commissioners.

In other business, members decided to subcontract Mike Shirley for the services of a cemetery caretaker to cut grass this season. Members also discussed some wastewater maintenance issues including painting some outbuildings and truck repair.

Selectman Neal McCurdy asked that the color selected to paint any buildings should match the color of the Sno- Wanders maintenance building.

Marble also said that Time Warner Cable is implementing new technology called Switched Digital Video which allows for more efficiency and more High Definition channels. “This will affect Cable-Card equipped devises,” Marble said.

Effective April 20, channels CMT, TruTV and Oxygen will go to SDV. People who have TiVo and Moxi DVRs will need to use an external tuning adaptor. Marble said that people can go to the Time Warner Web site for more information.

Marble also said a budget workshop was being held on April 12 and a full budget meeting is scheduled for April 19.