Waste at the Coastal Resources of Maine facility in Hampden is carried toward a trommel, which separates materials by size and weight. The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com . Bill Lippincott and Ed Spencer are co-chairs of Don’t Waste ME. The Municipal Review Committee , the group that oversees solid waste management for 115 towns throughout Maine, has a historic chance to improve Maine’s failing recycling system. It should take advantage of that opportunity. This opportunity arose from the difficulties the committee is having in restarting the fraught Coastal Resources of Maine facility, which was supposed to revolutionize waste management for the state. It was recently announced that needed financing was not forthcoming, so the Hampden plant will continue to sit idle. An exclusivity arrangement for a potential partnership with Revere Capital Advisors ended Jan. 31 without a purchase contract or timeline for reopening the facility. Here’s how we got here. In 1991, 180 Maine member towns came together in an association, called the Municipal Review Committee, to manage their waste and to give communities leverage with the then-new […]
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