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  • Maine Towns Vote Whether to Burn Trash or Make Biogas

    Actu­al­ly, there’s a third (and bet­ter) option and it’s called Zero Waste. - by Andy O’Brien, April 7, 2016, The Free Press On March 31, 2018, it will no longer be eco­nom­i­cal for mid­coast towns to send their house­hold trash to the  Penob­scot Ener­gy Recov­ery Co. (PERC) incin­er­a­tor in Orring­ton. That’s the date when the facil­i­ty los­es a…

  • UMaine to Study “Trashanol” Effect in Maine

    - by Grady Trim­ble,  Octo­ber 24, 2014, WLBZ A team of Uni­ver­si­ty of Maine researchers are gear­ing up to study the pos­si­bil­i­ty of bring­ing new tech­nol­o­gy called “Trashanol” to Maine. “Trashanol” is a waste-to-ener­gy tech­nol­o­gy devel­oped by Mary­land-based com­pa­ny Fiberight. Basi­cal­ly, it is a process that con­verts house­hold waste into fuel. The tech­nol­o­gy is spark­ing inter­est in East­ern…