ReSource Waste Services of Lewiston Achieves RCI Certification
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In 2022, the state passed L.D. 1639, which closed a longstanding loophole in state trash law that allowed out of state trash to be combined with Maine trash at waste processing facilities and then disposed of in Maine landfills. State law was intended to disallow out of state trash to end up in landfills, but […]
Environmental activists, neighbors of the landfill including the Penobscot Nation and a growing group of lawmakers have decried the unique set of circumstances that allow private companies to dump so much material from Massachusetts into the state facility, despite laws that were once meant to prevent that.
The Environment and Natural Resources Committee voted 11-1 on Monday to recommend a proposal that would end those exemptions. It'll now be considered by the full Legislature.