After Senate vote, Maine is a step closer to banning out-of-state garbage

ASSOCIATED PRESS • April 7, 2022

The Maine Senate voted unanimously Thursday to ban out-of-state garbage from being dumped in a state-owned landfill. The bill aims to close a loophole that allowed trash from Massachusetts and New Hampshire to be processed in Maine, reclassified in Maine waste and then dumped in Maine’s only publicly owned landfill, Juniper Ridge, near Old Town. The bill’s sponsor, Democratic Sen. Anne Carney, D-Cumberland, said only Maine-generated waste should go into taxpayer-owned landfills. The Senate vote was 32-0. The House will likely vote next week.