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Waste Management & Recycling Program

Publications

Please Contact Us for older publications and reports not available below

Reusable Bag Working Group
The reusable bag working group consisting of business leaders, grocery and retail associations, government officials, and environmental advocates, promote their campaign to encourage increased reusable bag use thereby reducing single use checkout bags by 33% by 2013 with a public education campaign, Got Your Bags, Maine?

Planning Documents

  • 2009 Solid Waste Generation and Disposal Capacity Report (published Jan. 2011) (PDF 627KB)

  • 2010 Annual Report of the Solid Waste Management Advisory Council (PDF 49KB)

  • Waste Management and Recycling Plan, January 2009 (PDF 366KB)

  • 2008 Solid Waste Generation and Disposal Capacity Report (PDF 259KB)

  • 2007 Solid Waste Generation and Disposal Capacity Report (PDF 287KB)

  • Recycling in Maine Municipalities: What Makes it Tick? This report explores both demographic factors and various municipal recycling policies, to first identify what successful recycling programs tend to have in common, and then provides general recommendations for methods of increasing recycling rates in Maine towns. This report was completed in 2008 by the program's summer intern. (PDF 225KB)
  • Transfer Station And Bulky Waste Management: A Planning Manual, March 1993 (PDF 14MB)

Statistical Information

Solid Waste Cost Studies

  • Solid Waste Program Costs: A Study of Selected Maine Communities (PDF 148 KB)
    This report examines recycling and rubbish costs for 22 Maine communities.

  • Recycling Economic Information Study Update: 2009 (PDF 4,237KB) This study, prepared by the Northeast Recycling Council, updates the document below.

  • Public Recycling Program Costs and Efficiencies: 1999 (PDF 115KB)
    This study, prepared by the Northeast Recycling Council, examines recycling costs and benefits for selected programs throughout the U.S.

  • Household Hazardous Waste Cost Study (PDF 86KB)

Newsletter

Fact Sheets, Brochures, & other Publications

  • Composting to Reduce the Waste Stream - A Guide to Small Scale Food and Yard Waste Composting (PDF 19.77MB)

  • Buy Recycled and Close the Loop (PDF 28)

  • Holiday Reduction & Recycling Tips (PDF 26KB)

  • Household Hazardous Waste (PDF 36KB)

  • Office Paper Recycling (PDF 16KB)

  • Organic Waste Collection & Composting (PDF 23KB)

  • Planning A Municipal Recycling Program (PDF 16KB)

  • Planning & Developing Your Recycling Education Program (PDF 17KB)

  • Recycling Programs in Schools (PDF 26KB)

  • Reduction & Recycling Tips for Effective Direct Mail (PDF 23)

  • Surveying Your Residents (including sample survey) (PDF 14KB)

  • Waste Reduction Options for Business & Industry (PDF 27KB)

  • Waste Reduction Tips for Consumers (PDF 26KB)

  • What are 'Avoided Disposal Costs'? (PDF 17KB)

  • What Happens to our Recyclables (PDF 46KB)

  • Why Recycle? (PDF 16KB)

Other

Response to Committee Questions on Solid Waste and Recycling, (PDF 490KB) to the Joint Standing Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Study of Solid Waste Issues, January 19, 2011.