The Maine Department of Environmental Protection says the four-day-long operation will be visible from the Casco Bay Bridge, Veterans Memorial Bridge and I-295.
MDI acts against pandemic plastic pollution
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND Almost two months ago, 8,000 bales of plastic waste, weighing nearly 10,000 tons, set sail on the Atlantic aboard a Northern Ireland cargo ship, the Sider London. Two of the bales fell into Penobscot Bay during offloading operations at the Sprague Energy Terminal in Searsport. Remnants of plastic from the incident drifted along the shores of Sears Island last month. The plastic waste was bound for Orrington, the home of Penobscot Energy Recovery Co. (PERC), to be burned and processed into energy.
Material Research President Jim Vallette used this recent occurrence to explain the complexities of Maine’s plastic waste system at last week’s virtual meeting hosted by Indivisible MDI. Vallette and others from his Southwest Harbor-based research organization have been following plastic for over 30 years. “It was really a shock to see waste come into the U.S. because waste follows the path of leas
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An off-loading accident in Searsport dropped two bales of shredding plastic into the water which washed up on Sears Island. Crews and volunteers are cleaning it up