BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 27, 2023
The Municipal Review Committee, the group that oversees solid waste management for 115 towns throughout Maine, has a historic chance to improve Maine’s failing recycling system. Needed financing was not forthcoming, so the Hampden plant will continue to sit idle. An exclusivity arrangement for a potential partnership with Revere Capital Advisors ended Jan. 31 without a purchase contract or timeline for reopening the facility. There are common-sense solutions that we can bring to Maine resulting in less waste to landfills and incinerators — a win for our health and our planet. Don’t Waste ME, a citizen group working for waste policy, is asking the Municipal Review Committee’s board and member towns to see this as an opportunity to move forward in a new direction for managing how waste is processed and disposed. ~ Bill Lippincott and Ed Spencer, co-chairs of Don’t Waste ME