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Links tagged “recycling”
- Cox aims to eliminate landfill waste (4/29/14)
Cox Communications said its operations centers in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Ohio are aiming to eliminate by 2020 all landfill waste they generate.
- Litterbugs look out: Green Up Day is here (4/27/14)
It’s time for Vermont’s annual spring cleaning. This Saturday volunteers will pick up litter all over the state in observance of Green Up Day
- Waterville residents will learn garbage in, garbage out has a price (4/16/14)
Residents are resisting a pay-as-you-throw proposal, but the cost of dealing with their tons of garbage is a lot higher.
- Waldoboro to Keep Enforcing Waste Ordinance (4/9/14)
Though a recent letter from a local waste hauling company's attorney threatened a lawsuit if Waldoboro enforces its waste and recycling ordinance, Town Manager Linda-Jean Briggs said the town can and will continue enforcement
- Waterville recycling options include pay-per-bag for garbage (4/6/14)
WATERVILLE — A special committee that has been exploring alternatives to solid waste removal in the city for about a year is expected to issue its preliminary report to the City Council Tuesday night.
- Spinning gold (and other precious metals) from no-longer-useful products (4/28/14)
Gannon & Scott Inc.’s business strategy can be summed up in two words: green growth. Over the past 15 years, the precious metal recycler has expanded to two states, significantly grown its customer base and adopted a number of initiatives to make its operations more environmentally friendly
- Waterville pay-per-bag proposal used in other Maine communities (4/22/14)
Officials in Sanford and Presque Isle say some still don’t like it, but say paying for municipal trash bags has worked well.
- Westport firm launches new environmental paper (4/15/14)
Westport-based FutureMark Paper Group has launched the first 100 percent recycled paper to work with high-end corporate marketing materials and magazines.
- Waterville trash pickup alternative draws fire (4/8/14)
Residents at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting argued passionately against the proposal of a pay-as-you-throw fee for trash pickup.
- From dumps to wattage: Maine’s changing waste landscape (4/4/14)
A confluence of forces having to do with contracts, electricity prices and landfill space — all coming to a head in 2018 — are at play in the effort by a group representing 187 Maine towns and cities to devise an entirely new scheme for disposing municipal solid waste.