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 Maine’s Legislature established a goal of recycling 50 percent of the state's municipal solid waste (MSW) by 2003. MSW is waste typically generated by households, business, and schools and may be managed by municipalities, which means that your tax dollars are paying for their disposal. The more you recycle, the less it costs your town in disposal fees. As a resident of northern Maine, there are many different things that we can recycle. For example, corrugated cardboard, newspapers, office paper, mixed paper, food wastes, plastics, glass metals, and textiles can be recycled at most transfer stations and landfills. Also, we can recycle tires, appliances, furniture, wood wastes, yard waste, and construction/demolition debris.
Even with Maine’s impressive 37.3 percent recycling rate, the state will run out of room for its trash by 2011, according to a recent Maine State Planning Office analysis. Maine’s recycling rate is among the highest in the nation, and the state has become a national model for both environmental sensitivity and economic sensibility. Northern Maine Development Commission has services available to help home owners, businesses, and schools reduce, reuse, and recycle solid waste and help our communities save money.
We hope you find the information in this site useful and welcome any comments or suggestions for additions to this site. We will be updating our site regularly so please visit often.
Northern Maine Brownfields (petroleum- based) Initiative
This site has been funded by a grant from the USDA Rural Development.
Disclaimer: NMDC provides information to enhance public awareness of solid waste issues in northern Maine. Our goal is to keep information timely and accurate and if errors are brought to our attention, we will try to correct them. The Commission accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to the information within this site.
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