Compost firm expands for new lobster plant
The Portland-based Coast of Maine Organic Products plans to double production at its Washington County composting facility based on the reopening of the former Stinson Seafood Cannery in Prospect Harbor.
The Bangor Daily News reported that Garbo Lobster and East Coast Seafood's renovation of that plant as a lobster processing facility will provide Maine Organic Products with a new source of raw material for its lobster compost.
The Prospect Harbor plant plans to restart lobster production in June, producing 50,000 pounds of fresh lobster a week.
That production, the paper reported, will provide Maine Organic Products with more raw materials for its composting operation, supporting a $500,000 expansion that company President Carlos Quijano told the paper will double the company's production of lobster compost.
The company's expansion plans still await Maine Department of Environmental Protection approval. The company hopes to expand its annual volume of fish and shellfish residue from 3,000 to 15,000 cubic yards and increase wood waste compost materials from 2,000 to 15,000 cubic yards.
Quijano told the paper that the expansion is the result of "a very recent surge in lobster production" and that the company is also working out a deal with Garbo and East Coast Seafood to share the costs of trucking the lobster waste from Prospect Harbor to its Marion Township compost plant, where the company plans to add as many as four full-time jobs and eight part-time jobs.
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