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- CT waste future leaves trash-to-energy in dust (6/2/14)
The state legislature has rung the death knell for trash-to-energy in Connecticut.
- Opponents of Proposed Landfill Meet in Alton (5/6/14)
In April, the Municipal Review Committee, a group representing nearly two hundred Maine cities and towns, submitted an application to the Department of Environmental Protection to build a landfill in Greenbush or Argyle
- Maine Department of Environmental Protection Announces Food Scrap Recovery Program and Trainings (5/2/14)
The Sustainability Division at the Maine Department of Environmental Protection is offering free workshops to encourage the recovery of food scraps and the beneficial reuse of those materials either through composting, anaerobic digestion or other applications. 40 percent of Maine's municipal solid waste is organics and could be diverted from a landfill and beneficially reused.
- 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.
- Waste, recycling overhaul approved (5/7/14)
The state House of Representatives voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a law that will overhaul the struggling Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority.
- Waterville residents scrutinize pay-as-you-throw trash plan (5/6/14)
WATERVILLE — Residents Tuesday night peppered city councilors and trash officials with questions about a proposed pay-as-you-throw and recycling program.
- 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.
- 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.
- Portland-area curbside composting business growing like gangbusters (4/13/14)
If the concept of a closed loop – where most everything is recycled and little or no waste is produced – is an environmental ideal, Tyler Frank’s nearly two-year-old business in Portland comes close to achieving it