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- Recycling efforts earn ecomaine awards (3/11/14)
PORTLAND — Regional waste management company ecomaine announced last week that its annual eco-Excellence Awards have been given to an assisted living community in Yarmouth and an environmental organization in Cape Elizabeth.
- Fall River pay-as-you-throw presentation on docket tonight; 2 others cancelled (2/20/14)
FALL RIVER — The City Council Committee on Health and Environmental Affairs will begin public presentations tonight from vendors vying for a contract with the city for a solid waste program
- Barney bag’ trash savings pegged at $1M (2/18/14)
The city’s “Barney bag” trash program turned 5 years old this month. And according to WasteZero — the company that coordinates and tracks Gloucester’s trash bag pickup and recycling programs — the savings are more than just environmental
- Windfall from ecomaine welcome, but won’t go far (2/4/14)
PORTLAND -- Easy come. Easy go. That's the assessment from several area municipal managers regarding a projected windfall of savings from the regional trash service, ecomaine. Those savings will likely be used to offset proposed cuts in state revenue sharing.
- Guilford concerned about future cost of trash disposal (1/16/14)
GUILFORD — While the contract between USA Energy Group and the Maine Municipal Review Committee — the nonprofit organization that runs the Penobscot Energy Recovery Co. — doesn’t expire until 2018, some towns are already concerned about the future of the operation
- Covanta inks food recycling deal with Lake Compounce (3/4/14)
Waste-to-energy firm Covanta on Tuesday reached a deal with Lake Compounce to recycle the amusement park's organics waste in Connecticut, the first such agreement reached since Covanta announced a central Connecticut facility.
- N.C. firm to pitch pay-per-throw in Manchester (2/20/14)
MANCHESTER — A Raleigh, N.C., outfit came to Manchester this week and proclaimed there’s gold in them ‘thar hills of rubbish.
- Casella scraps plan to build pipeline from Old Town landfill to UMaine over financing (2/7/14)
ORONO, Maine — A proposed seven-mile methane gas pipeline between Juniper Ridge landfill in Old Town and the University of Maine to provide cheap, renewable heat to the campus has been scrapped over financing, according to an official with the landfill’s parent company.
- Task force backs pay-per-bag shopping plan (1/28/14)
PORTLAND — In what may be a case of history repeating itself, a City Council task force on Monday narrowly recommended a proposed fee that many city merchants would charge customers to pack goods in disposable bags.
- Trash Authority Seeks Renewable Energy Credits (11/20/13)
With a $12 million hole to fill over the next five years, the head of the state’s trash authority believes the state should allow it to receive a renewable energy credit for the trash it burns and turns into energy.