Ecomaine

The Portland company intends to install a high-tech sorting system to handle expected growth.

Officials at the ecomaine waste-to-energy plant in Portland say that a purple vapor seen coming from one of its smokestacks Thursday morning was likely vaporized iodine.

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…

Waste management company ecomaine says a pilot project that sent recycling interns into several communities last summer was a success, reducing…

PORTLAND, Maine - A manager of a Maine recycling facility has been fired and named in a search warrant in connection with the theft of more than…

One person’s trash, it has been said, is another person’s treasure — except when it comes to recycling. A crash in the global recycling market last year…

Plastics harm the environment in many different ways, on land and in the ocean. They entangle wildlife, create massive floating islands of trash in the…

China has drastically curtailed its import of recycled materials from the United States. We’ll learn about the impact of this decision on recycling…

A collapse in the global recycling market is having reverberations in Maine.Bales of paper are building up at Portland-based ecomaine and costs are…

Local recyclers are facing financial and logistical challenges brought on by a lack of global demand.On Jan. 1, China banned 24 kinds of recyclables it…