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Topic · Waste · Maine · public record

Recycling and epr across Maine

What this decidesWhat a producer or hauler will be required to fund, collect or label, and which towns are moving first.

Recycling programs, extended producer responsibility for packaging, disposal bans, and the contracts and fees behind municipal collection.Our definition of the class.

Your own viewRecycling and epr, cut to what you need to know
11
towns on the record
72
events on the record
41
in the last 90 days

What this page is for one topic across Maine's municipalities on the public record: where it is moving, which towns carry it, the documents behind it. A subscriber sees it cut to their own towns and questions. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

Where it is on the record11 towns, most movement first

Every town carrying this class on the record through 2026-08-31: events in the last 90 days against the 90 before, the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number, the latest document.
North Yarmouth49 events32 in 90 days ▲ +88.2%latest 2026-08-07, Waste Reduction Committee Meeting Agenda
Litchfield2 events2 in 90 daysnew on the recordlatest 2026-08-20, July 2026
South Portland2 events2 in 90 daysnew on the recordlatest 2026-08-31, Waste Reduction Committee - Mar 18 2026 — 2026-03-
Falmouth7 events1 in 90 days ▼ -50.0%latest 2026-08-10, Council Work Plan Priorities FY26-27.pdf
Kennebunk4 events1 in 90 daysnew on the recordlatest 2026-08-05, AgendaCenter minutes
York2 events1 in 90 daysnew on the recordlatest 2026-08-05, AgendaCenter minutes
Brunswick1 event1 in 90 daysnew on the recordlatest 2026-08-22, Packet
Scarborough1 event1 in 90 daysnew on the recordlatest 2026-07-18, Section IX. Performance Standards
Cumberland2 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-03-04, Natural Resources Council of Maine 1 (PDF)
Brewer1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-02-23, Brewer Chronicle November 2025 (PDF)
Orono1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-03-05, Penobscot Climate Action Survey 2 Paper Version

Who this typically touches

Business types a matter in this class typically reaches. Our inference from the class, not the record's words; a specific organization is named on these pages only when the record itself names it.

Likely to gain: haulers and materials recovery facilities (collection contracts and program changes are decided in public before they are bid).

Likely affected: packaging producers and their compliance staff (extended producer responsibility shifts collection cost onto the producer); retailers and distributors subject to disposal bans (a ban changes what may be sold or must be taken back).

One scope up

The same class at a wider scope: Recycling and epr in Maine · Recycling and epr in New Hampshire · Recycling and epr in California · Recycling and epr in Massachusetts · Recycling and epr across the country.

Counts and dates are taken from the documents on the record in this window. The class and its definition are ours.