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Monday, March 22, 2021
THOMASTON The Town of Thomaston will hold a special town meeting Wednesday, March 3, at 6 p.m. at the Thomaston Municipal Building (13 Valley Street) to determine if it is the will of the Town’s voters to establish a Solid Waste Facility Reserve.
The lone article question reads:
To see if the Town will vote to establish a Solid Waste Facility Reserve with funds received from Penobscot Energy Recovery Company of $363,440.93 with the ratification of expenditures of ($48,578.00) for a total of $314,862.93 plus interest to fund the new Solid Waste Facility Reserve.
The breakdown of monies is:
Sludge Futures
by Ethan Andrews The shuttered Coastal Resources of Mainae recycling facility in Hampden (Photo: Ethan Andrews) Municipal Review Committee member communities in the midcoast (Source: Municipal Review Committee)
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2 At a January 19 presentation to the Municipal Review Committee, the nonprofit that represents 115 Maine municipalities in matters of trash, Rob Van Naarden, CEO of Delta Thermo Energy, described a scene that sounded as if it were from another era.
“As we speak here today, there are barges that are moving from New York City south, outside the 12-mile limit,” he said. “They put them in international waters. All they do is carry sewage sludge from New York City. It used to go to Louisiana to a landfill down there. But recently, a couple of months ago, they refused to take it. And so they’re looking for other places. We eliminate that need.”
Lost Bale of Plastic Waste Recovered
by Ethan Andrews The recovered bale (Courtesy of Sprague Operating Resources) A sonar image of the bale on the bay floor (Courtesy of Sprague Operating Resources) The location where the bale was found, about 1,000 feet east of the dock at Mack Point in Searsport. Sears Island is visible at right. (Courtesy of Sprague Operating Resources) Bales of solid recovered fuel are unloaded in Searsport on November 29, three days before the spill (Photo: Ethan Andrews) A chunk of compressed plastic waste on the beach at Sears Island on December 8. In the background, Bob Brennan of Stockton Springs, who discovered and reported the spill, pictured with his dog, Jack (Photo: Ethan Andrews)
Trash from Northern Ireland will continue to wash up on our shores for weeks
After bales of shredded plastic were dumped into the Penobscot Bay Mainers are asking, why are we taking out-of-state trash? Author: Sam Rogers (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 7:42 PM EST December 16, 2020 Updated: 7:42 PM EST December 16, 2020
SEARSPORT, Maine When you visit Sears Island, you expect to explore walking trails and beaches, not stumble upon trash. But that s exactly what island-goers saw on the shoreline last week.
“I saw a picture that someone had posted, and I was like wow, that is horrifying, Sally Brophy said.
Brophy is part of the Upstream Watch advocacy group that fights to preserve and protect rivers in the mid-coast. Brophy and members of the group spent days picking up trash after an off-loading accident dumped two bales of shredded plastic into the water.
We re getting Europe s waste? US hit by plastic debris lost from UK ship Karen Mc
Brightly coloured plastic debris from the UK has been washing up along the coast of Maine in the US after a shipment bound for incineration fell into the sea.
The plastic debris, part of a 10,000-tonne consignment from Re-Gen Waste, a company based in Newry, Northern Ireland, has infuriated environmentalists and locals surprised to learn that the north-eastern state of Maine is importing plastic from almost 3,000 miles away.
Volunteers struggling to clear the waste from the shoreline of Sears Island, alongside a company employed to tackle it, fear they are fighting a losing battle as more plastic washes up with every tide.