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Links tagged “solid waste”
- 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.
- Few back Manchester proposal to pay-as-you-throw (4/3/14)
MANCHESTER — An overwhelming majority of the people at Thursday's public session on a proposed pay-as-you-throw garbage collection system said they were opposed to the idea
- Heavy opposition delays Portland vote on plastic foam ban, bag fee (3/20/14)
Portland business owners and statewide trade groups showed up in force Wednesday to testify against proposals to ban plastic foam and assess a 10-cent fee on paper and plastic bags, prompting a City Council committee to postpone its vote.
- Proposal to revive Stratford’s Trash-o-saurus (3/17/14)
HARTFORD -- Two Stratford lawmakers want to shake off the flies, pick up the trash and reopen the Stratford Garbage Museum.
- 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.
- Processing of debris may move from Pond View in East Providence to Providence site (3/28/14)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Large-scale processing of construction and demolition debris may be moving from the former TLA Pond View facility in East Providence to Providence’s surging recycling hub along Allens Avenue — much to the delight of some Rumford neighbors.
- Portland will require large apartments to offer recycling (3/18/14)
Starting next year, Portland will require landlords of large apartment buildings to offer convenient recycling to their tenants
- Imagining a world without waste (3/12/14)
WISCASSET - Imagine a world without garbage: That’s what the Chewonki Foundation’s third annual Zero Waste Challenge is asking middle school students to do — for the chance to win up to $1,500.