Pendse cited in MPBN report on expiring waste disposal agreement
Hemant Pendse, director of the Forest Bioproducts Research Institute and chemical engineering professor at the University of Maine, was mentioned in a Maine Public Broadcasting Network report about the expiration of a 30-year waste disposal agreement between more than 180 communities and the Penobscot Energy Recovery Co. PERC, which generates electricity with its Orrington incinerator, would like to keep the arrangement going, but a coalition of communities known as the Municipal Review Committee is pursuing a competing proposal involving a newer technology with the company Fiberight, according to the report. Bangor City Manager Cathy Conlow, a member of MRC, said the new technology is being widely used in Europe, and it has been vetted and endorsed by Pendse, a chemical engineering expert who is qualified to speak on the topic.