PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • February 7, 2022
A panel of lawmakers Monday overwhelmingly endorsed a bill that would prohibit companies from depositing waste that originated outside Maine in the state-owned Juniper Ridge landfill. It is against state law to dump out-of-state waste at the landfill, just outside of Old Town. But the wording in the current law allows companies to deposit “waste residue,” including from trash trucked in from Massachusetts and elsewhere, at the landfill. The bill, L.D. 1639, would close that loophole by limiting the amount of residue from a recycling or waste-processing facility to just the weight of material generated in Maine by that facility.