Methods
Least favorable Solid Waste disposal method
What is a landfill?
Conversion of waste materials into usable heat, electricity, or fuel.
What is energy recovery?
An incentive to increase recycling
What is Pay-as-you-throw or pay per bag?
EPA
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
DOL
What is the Department of Labor?
Most Recyclables are processed into these before shipping to a recycler
What are bales?
The number of fully operational Energy Recovery facilities in Maine
What is three?
Name for having manufacturer help finance recycling of their product
What is product stewardship?
DEP
What is the Department of Environmental Protection?
State program of voluntary inspections
What is Safety Works?
Contaminated liquid generated by a landfill
What is leachate?
How is landfill gas collected in a closed landfill
What are wells and pipes?
Municipal employee with the most impact on recycling rates in towns with transfer stations
Who is the Transfer Station Operator?
NIMBY
What is "Not In My BackYard"?
Training to prevent workers from contracting disease
What is Blood Born Pathogens?
Newest proposal to manage solid waste in Maine
What is Fiberight?
Method used to produce electricity at closed landfills (other than landfill gas recovery)
What is solar energy or solar farms?
Effective way of "reaching" the public
What is Education and Outreach?
MRF
What is a Materials Recovery Facility?
Training to prevent suffocation
What is Confined Spaces?
Most prevalent type of residential solid waste disposal in Maine
What is incineration?
According to ecomaine, most prevalent recyclable product in waste taken to an energy recovery facility
What is Corrugated Cardboard?
Best way of getting a message across to the public
What is personal contact?
PERC
What is Penobscot Energy Recovery Corporation?
Training to prevent physical harm such as crushing
What is Lock Out-Tag Out?