Today’s topic is Maine’s Climate Plan, Maine Can’t Wait, with its mandate for adapting and mitigating the climate changes that have been happening for many years in Maine. Maine’s Climate Plan was developed from 2018 to 2020 by the Maine Climate Council, a hardworking group of over 40 volunteers representing industry, utilities, farming, forestry, fisheries, […]
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The Recycle Bin: Maine’s Climate Plan and what it means for us
Today’s topic is Maine’s Climate Plan, Maine Can’t Wait, with its mandate for adapting and mitigating the climate changes that have been happening for many years in Maine. Maine’s Climate Plan was developed from 2018 to 2020 by the Maine Climate Council, a hardworking group of over 40 volunteers representing industry, utilities, farming, forestry, fisheries, […]
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The Recycle Bin: Introducing our new columnist
Introducing Nancy Chandler, of the Topsham Recycling Committee and MSAD 75 School Board, the new writer of The Recycle Bin column. A little history and some credentials from Nancy: My husband, Chip Chandler, designed a solar, wood-heated A-frame in Phippsburg in 1980 that functioned to raise our two children with no furnace or fossil fuel […]
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Municipal Review Committee completes purchase of Hampden recycling, waste-to-energy plant
The MRC announced the $1.5 million purchase Wednesday and intends to reopen the plant in nine to 12 months after it establishes a partnership with a financial firm.
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Brunswick advocates: Composting can help both the planet and your wallet
A new food-waste drop-off site at the Brunswick Recreation Center is just part of a three-pronged effort to promote composting, which experts say could help the environment and the town’s bottom line.
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Acquisition of Hampden recycling and waste-to-energy plant expected within two weeks
The Municipal Review Committee, which represents the solid waste interests of 115 Maine municipalities, plans to buy the plant and updated the public Wednesday on the progress of the purchase.
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MRC now in position to purchase Hampden recycling, waste-to-energy facility
The Municipal Review Committee announced Wednesday that no qualified bidders have come forward to buy the defunct Coastal Resources of Maine plant, which means the MRC is now poised to take ownership of it for $1.5 million.
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Maine’s landmark recycling reform law will take years to implement
It could take 4 years for the state to craft detailed regulations that make big corporations shoulder the local cost of disposing of hard-to-recycle packaging they produce.
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Gov. Janet Mills signs law to close loophole that allows out-of-state debris
Final measure revised to ease the impact on Lewiston recycler that has benefited from past policy.
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Cumberland church will recycle lamps, sneakers, surgical masks
The Outreach Committee at Tuttle Road Community Church in Cumberland is launching a recycling program for lamps, sneakers and used surgical masks starting next month. Lamps collected will be sent to Furniture Friends, a nonprofit in Westbrook that provides furniture and other household goods to those in need. Sneakers dropped off in good condition will […]