PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • February 18, 2022
Last year, a proposal to boost Maine’s recycling industry and deal with the problem of plastic waste by reducing the amount of virgin plastic in our beverage bottles won broad support from both sides of the aisle. The bill now sits in the Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee, waiting for modest funding. It should pass, and here’s why. L.D. 1467 aims to reduce plastic waste and cut greenhouse-gas emissions at the same time by requiring an increasing percentage of recycled content in all plastic beverage bottles sold into Maine. ~ Rep. Vicki Doudera, D-Camden, and Sen. Rick Bennett, R-Oxford