By ALEX HANSON
Valley News Staff Writer

Tim Mamroe, an attendant at the Hartford Transfer/Recycling Center, asks Michael McCarthy, of Woodstock, Vt., what he will be dropping off on Thursday. Jennifer Hauck / Valley News

For the most part, people bringing their trash to the transfer station, even in a small town such as Unity, take little notice of the people who work there, said Vanessa Keith, who has worked at the town’s Mica Mine Road facility since 1997 and now manages it.

Dropping off trash and recycling, yard waste and appliances tends to be a job done quickly, on the way to some other more enjoyable activity.

“I guess I feel like we’re sort of invisible,” said Keith, who since 2014 also has worked at the transfer station in Lempster, N.H.

Now, however, transfer station employees are considered essential workers, and their role is receiving new attention.

Transfer stations have had to manage the potential hazards of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

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