Marion County gives trash burner another year to win state tax credits

Covanta Marion, a trash incinerator in Brooks, burns roughly 170,000 tons of garbage every year. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter)

Local garbage will be shipped to Brooks another year under a deal approved by Marion County commissioners that will avoid a shutdown and gives the plant operator another run at state politics.

Commissioners Kevin Cameron, Sam Brentano and Colm Willis agreed to extend until Sept. 20, 2020, its deal with the incinerator’s New Jersey parent company, Covanta.