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Kitten Survives Trip Through Recycling Shredder …

This kitten survived a trip through a shredder at a recycling facility in England. (Mirror photo.) Stray animals are no strangers to recycling facilities. The allure of food scraps and a warm place to...

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Keep It Simple: How To Reduce and Reuse by Upcycling

The Waste Hierarchy. Learn it. Live it. Love it. At ecomaine, we’re in the recycling and Waste-To-Energy business — but those aren’t at the top of the Waste Hierarchy. That would be Reduce and Reuse....

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Check Out Our New Video: Learn What Goes In The Bin!

With ecomaine’s Single-Sort Recycling, it’s easy to recycle all your glass, metal, paper, cardboard, and plastics #1-7: it all goes In The Bin! But there are some things that either can’t be recycled...

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File Under: Reuse – Homemade Instruments to Appear in Freeport Parade

The North Pownal Plastic Pipe Players do what they do best at a Fourth of July parade a few years back. The North Pownal Plastic Pipe Players will be performing in the Freeport July 4th parade after a...

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ecomaine Partners With USM Prof, City of Portland, To Boost Recycling Rates

Going back to 2010, the City of Portland‘s recycling rate has held steady, right around 36 or 37 percent. But we think we can do better. Which is why we’re helping University of Southern Maine Prof....

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The Sword In The Recycling …

Many visitors to ecomaine want to know: what’s the strangest thing that’s ever come through your Single-Sort Recycling Center – which just happens to be Maine’s first and largest, but that’s another...

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To Safely Dispose of Your Cell Phone, Don’t Do What This Presidential...

You may have seen the recent video made by one presidential candidate, which shows him destroying his cellphone after another presidential candidate gave out his phone number at a media event. Clearly,...

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The ecomaine Chainsaw Massacre!

You can’t put a chainsaw into your blue recycling bin. Do you know what you can and cannot put into your blue bin? Click here to find out!

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Save The Date: The Annual ecomaine Charity Golf Tournament!

Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015 Nonesuch River Golf Club 304 Gorham Rd., Scarborough Noon   This year’s ecomaine Charity Golf Tournament benefits the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland. The cost is $68...

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Hey, You Gonna Recycle That?

Here at ecomaine, we take recycling very seriously. But it’s worth noting that recycling – while tremendously important – is not the first rung on the Waste Hierarchy; Reduce and Reuse take priority....

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SAVE THE DATE: ecomaine Annual Board of Directors Meeting June 16, 2016

with Special Guest Speaker Anna Eleanor Roosevelt President and CEO, Goodwill Industries of Northern New England Anna Eleanor Roosevelt DATE: Thursday, June 16, 2016 TIME: 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m....

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ecomaine community teachers get half off Green Schools workshop Dec. 16

In the first collaboration of its kind, ecomaine is partnering with Project Learning Tree (PLT) for a full-day teacher’s workshop on Friday, Dec. 16 at ecomaine’s offices in Portland. The workshop will...

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How to stay on the recycling “Nice” list this holiday season

Happy Holidays from ecomaine! ‘Tis the season for “decking the halls” and potluck parties galore. Here at ecomaine, we receive about a third of Maine’s recyclables, or roughly 41,000 tons annually,...

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ecomaine announces twelve 2017 School Recycling Grant recipients

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lisa Wolff, Communications Manager wolff@ecomaine.org   207-523-3018 PORTLAND, Maine – January 13, 2017 – ecomaine, based here, is pleased to announce the recipients of...

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OceanView at Falmouth, Wayside Food Programs, Stuart Axelrod Take Top Honors...

CONTACT:      Lisa Wolff, Communications Manager (207) 523-3108 or wolff@ecomaine.org For Immediate Release: Awards honor Individuals, Nonprofit Organizations and Businesses that demonstrated...

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The Sword In The Recycling …

Many visitors to ecomaine want to know: what’s the strangest thing that’s ever come through your Single-Sort Recycling Center – which just happens to be Maine’s first and largest, but that’s another...

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To Safely Dispose of Your Cell Phone, Don’t Do What This Presidential...

You may have seen the recent video made by one presidential candidate, which shows him destroying his cellphone after another presidential candidate gave out his phone number at a media event. Clearly,...

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The ecomaine Chainsaw Massacre!

You can’t put a chainsaw into your blue recycling bin. Do you know what you can and cannot put into your blue bin? Click here to find out!

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Save The Date: The Annual ecomaine Charity Golf Tournament!

Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015 Nonesuch River Golf Club 304 Gorham Rd., Scarborough Noon   This year’s ecomaine Charity Golf Tournament benefits the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland. The cost is $68...

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Hey, You Gonna Recycle That?

Here at ecomaine, we take recycling very seriously. But it’s worth noting that recycling – while tremendously important – is not the first rung on the Waste Hierarchy; Reduce and Reuse take priority....

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