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Maine has more than 100,000 registered boats. At an average of 15 pounds of shrink wrap per boat (a 30-foot boat requires about 30 pounds), that’s more than 1.5 million pounds of plastic coming off boats around the state each spring, the vast majority bound for landfills or incinerators.
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Maine lost ground in its efforts to recycle more of its waste during the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new state report. However, some advocates are hopeful that new waste reforms passed in recent years could eventually help turn things around.
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Under a new ordinance, the city can revoke recycling collection services if a resident's recycling container is found contaminated three times.
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The expanding industry comes with a growing environmental problem: municipal recycling facilities refuse to take the plastic toppers that hold four-packs together.
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Gov. Janet Mills has signed a first-in-the-nation bill that will shift the cost of disposing packaging materials away from Maine communities and onto the companies that create them.
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When Maine consumers buy something from companies large and small, they must often pay to dispose of all the cardboard and plastic that it's packaged in. But businesses could soon shoulder more of those costs under a bill that's moving through the Legislature.
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Now, state lawmakers are considering two bills that would help towns to safely dispose of a very common type of waste: plastic and cardboard packaging. Both measures would force the companies that generate all that packaging to help pay for some of its disposal in Maine.
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Many Maine communities have pared back or dropped recycling programs in an effort to guard workers from potential exposure to the COVID-19 virus. Some big…
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Taxpayers in communities all across Maine are having to pay more and more to dispose of product packaging like cardboard boxes, plastic containers and…
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Waste management company ecomaine says a pilot project that sent recycling interns into several communities last summer was a success, reducing…