We can define a linear economy as one in which products are created from raw material, produced, distributed, used, and then discarded. That can include recycling, which is a key component of the process. The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries says that 40% of the global manufacturing supply chain now depends on the collection and […]
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Company hopes to go mainstream with reusable packaging
In all, Loop says, 191 stores and restaurants worldwide will be selling products in reusable containers by the first quarter of 2022, up from just a dozen stores in Paris at the end of 2020.
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Maine’s recycling market recovers after years-long downturn
The value of household paper, cardboard, metal and plastic surged in the last year as demand for materials intensified.
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The Recycle Bin: Compostable
At a popular Portland grocery store recently, we were not prepared to grocery shop, so did not have our mesh produce bags. What they had instead were bags that claim to be compostable. The label says very little except that they are made from “genuine material,” or some such thing, and that the substance is […]
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Effort underway to charge packagers for recycling, but industry fights
In July, Maine became the first state to adopt such a program, and several others have similar bills pending.
Posted inThe Forecaster
Scarborough continues recycling outreach program
The fourth round of the recycling outreach program has begun in Scarborough. Because the program in the spring had “considerable success,” the town wrote in Facebook post, the partnership with ecomaine will continue. Ecomaine interns, focusing on a portion of Thursday’s trash pickup route, will check recycling bins for recyclable and nonrecyclable items. Bins will […]
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Ecomaine accepting designs for Recycling is a Work of Art contest
Ecomaine is accepting until 5 p.m. Aug. 23 designs for its Recycling is a Work of Art painting contest. The contest is an opportunity for students, community groups and artists to submit their proposals to paint one of ecomaine’s 22-foot recycling containers with messages of reduction, reuse, recycling and sustainability. Up to six designs will […]
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Maine Voices: Landmark new Maine law more fairly allocates products’ real costs
Gov. Mills should sign L.D. 1541, so towns and cities won’t have to keep picking up the tab for product disposal and recycling.
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Maine lawmakers approve landmark recycling reform bill
If signed by Gov. Janet Mills, the bill would make private companies partly responsible for the cost of disposing of packaging waste and improving the state’s recycling system.
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Maine tries to shift the cost of recycling onto companies instead of taxpayers
With mountains of boxes and bubble wrap from online pandemic shopping now going in the trash, Maine is trying to enact what is known as an extended producer responsibility program.