Fire Closes Beverly Compost, Recycling Site Amid Ongoing Trash Strike

BEVERLY, MA — A fire at the Standley Street Yard Waste Compost Site in Beverly closed the site on Tuesday as residents face more recycling issues amid the two-month sanitation workers' strike.

Officials said on Tuesday morning the site would be closed throughout the day because of an "active fire."

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Standley Street had been the site where new dumpsters were just delivered this weekend to expand the city's recycling capacity during the strike against Republic Service. The site had been scheduled to be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

While talks resumed in the strike between Local Teamsters Union 25 and Republic Services last week, the union rejected the company's most recent contract proposal by a vote of more than 84 percent of its membership — leaving no end in sight to the strike that has disrupted trash pickup and virtually eliminated recycling collection since the strike was called on July 1.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. X/Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)