By Julia Hathaway, Special to the BDN Bangor Daily News Story There’s a chore most of us probably have dealt with this past week. Maybe you outsourced it to your children. Maybe you and a significant other argued over whose turn it was. But if you live in a municipality with trash collection, someone lugged Read More
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Portland Will Require Large Apartments to Offer Recycling
The city says about 10,000 housing units are not served by the city’s waste program. By Randy Billings, Staff Writer Portland Press Herald news story Starting next year, Portland will require landlords of large apartment buildings to offer convenient recycling to their tenants. If they don’t, they could be subject to fines ranging from $50 Read More
Racing for a Reason
by NRCM Board member Kate Rush When I was a kid, my parents purchased a waterfront lot on Sebasticook Lake in Newport, Maine. As dairy farmers, traditional vacations were not often practical so a nearby retreat where we could escape for a few hours at a time seemed more fitting. Then came our first July 4th, and Read More
Product Stewardship Forum Big Success…
Well…we had an incredible afternoon at the Product Stewardship State Legislative Forum yesterday! For starters, we had a capacity crowd of over 200 people with state legislators from all over the northeastern United States and maritime Canada in attendance. In addition, we had over 100 folks from all different kinds of backgrounds including academics, solid Read More
