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[email protected] FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2018 Plastic bags no longer allowed in recyclables To assist with education ef- BY BRIGIT MCCALLUM forts, a link is on the Town of
[email protected] Waterboro website leading to resources, including a list of dos Over the past few months, and don’ts that can be download- new fees leveled by ecomaine on ed and printed out and copies are the recyclables delivered there available at the transfer station. In have evoked both education and June, ecomaine’s environmental enforcement efforts on the part educator Katrina Venhuizen came of municipal officials in Water- to Waterboro to produce a video boro and at most of the more than with helpful information about 70 municipalities served by that the background of the changes as waste management facility. In well as details on how to recycle, May, ecomaine communicated to and there is a new database pro- the towns and cities it serves the duced by ecomaine called the Re- percentages of contamination, cyclopedia that can be accessed at meaning the presence of materials www.waterboro-me.net. that are not, in fact recyclable, in In the “enforcement” depart- the loads they were sending there. ment, the first step was the elim- They also communicated the fees ination of the so-called silver that would be charged for the rel- bullets at the town hall in Water- ative amounts of contamination boro, where some of the greatest found, beginning in September.