Since 1989, Maine has had a goal of recycling 50 percent of its municipal solid waste, a goal that it has never come close to reaching (the rate was roughly 38 percent in 2019). Part of the reason Maine has struggled? A lack of reliable data, say officials at the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM).
“We were out in the fog sometimes for long periods,” said Michael, sometimes offshore for hours without a GPS. “We were dead reckoning judging from the current and what that’s doing from the lobster buoys.”
Online programming has expanded BHHT’s reach on the Blue Hill Peninsula and beyond, including bringing in people from out of state who “have tuned in and just expressed how wonderful it is to stay in touch with their Maine communities.”
Although PERC can store roughly 10,000 tons of waste in its storage area and on its tipping floor, the rest of the deliveries will be landfilled at Juniper Ridge Landfill while PERC is closed, said Plant Manager Henry Lang. The waste can’t stay stored for long, however, “since the packed-in waste tends to self-combust if stored too long — like wet hay.”
ELLSWORTH — More than 2,200 Hancock County businesses received a total of $92.24 million as part of the Paycheck Protection Program, a measure intended at staving off economic collapse as businesses around the country scaled or shut down due to the pandemic, according to an analysis by The American of recently released federal data. The …
ELLSWORTH — Certain health-care workers and emergency responders could be given the first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine sometime in December as long as the authorization process goes smoothly, said Dr. James Jarvis, medical specialist for Northern Light Health’s incident command, in a press conference on Nov. 25. “There are two vaccines that have asked …
BAR HARBOR — On a recent sunny morning in late October, before fall winds swept the rest of the leaves from the trees, several students at College of the Atlantic gathered on the lawn of the college for an unusual task: the necropsy of an Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus) that had washed ashore in …
BLUE HILL — Press the play button on the online map on climatecentral.org and you too can watch as pixelated tentacles of blue creep farther and farther inland as the sea level rises: across Parker Point Road and Maple Lane, slowly eating into Main Street and up Pleasant, flooding across the town landing and the …
ELLSWORTH — The Hancock County Commissioners will hold a public hearing at a virtual meeting in December to gauge residents’ interest in opting into allowing retail marijuana operations in all 15 of the county’s unorganized territories. At a meeting on Nov. 3, commissioners voted 2-1 in favor of holding the public hearing at a regular meeting …
ELLSWORTH — It could be days before the world knows who won the White House, as races in key battleground states including Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania remained too close to call on Wednesday morning. But results were clearer in Hancock County. With all 37 municipalities reporting, former Vice President Joe Biden edged out President Donald …
HAMPDEN — The number of interested buyers for the waste and recycling plant in Hampden has been whittled down to three, Municipal Review Committee (MRC) members announced at a town hall meeting on Sept. 30. “All three assume a closing before the end of the year,” said MRC Executive Director Michael Carroll. The plant shut down in …
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