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Contents
- Maine Municipal Plastic Ordinances
A compendium of all current Maine ordinances, with links to both local copies and originals, as well as articles about their passage.
- General Mount Desert Island (MDI) Documents (PDFs; DOC files are offered to provide editable material)
- Plastic Facts (10/8, DOC)
- Plastic Bag Ordinance Q&A (9/12, DOC)
- Why Part With Plastic: short Q&A (Mary Ann & Kate & Dick, 10/2, DOC)
- Parting with Plastic events poster (Jill, 9/15)
- Parting with Plastic events poster (Sydney, 9/18)
- Parting with Plastic events half-sheet handout (9/15)
- Reducing Plastic Waste (Cary, 10/3, DOC)
- Specific Town Documents (PDFs; DOC files are offered to provide editable material)
- Southwest Harbor
Single-Use Carry-Out Plastic Bag and Polystyrene Food Service Containers ordinances passed at Special Town Meeting, November 13, 2018
- Ordinance Summary (11/13, DOC)
- Last-minute changes (10/23)
- Merchant Interview Form (9/22, DOC)
- Plastic Food Service Alternatives v.02 draft (9/26, DOC)
- Bar Harbor
- Mount Desert
- Tremont
- Resources related to Plastic Alternatives
- Sysco catalogs
(These catalogs, provided by Sysco, do not include prices, both include non-alternative plastics, products don't completely overlap)
- Earth Choice Product Catalog
Organized by material, sub-ordered by type; focused on 4R "reduce, reuse, recycle, renew" characteristics of each material; helpful 4R table of types
- Pactiv Catalog
Organized by type, sub-ordered by material; good description of materials; list of benefits for each material when first mentioned
- Other products (short list)
- Biomass Packaging catalogs
- EcoDallas products & prices
- MDI Plastic Project -- Four Southwest Harbor eighth-grade girls jumpstarting their town's effort and causing Southwest Harbor to be the lead MDI town in pursuing ordinances
- Website
- Slide presentation (PPTX, 14MB, PPT) -- presented to town Select Boards, the SWH 5/18 Town Meeting, and in the Bar Harbor, Northeast Harbor, and Tremont libraries.
- Major Articles/Reports on Plastic Pollution
- Plastic and Health: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet, February 2019 (local PDF)
Executive Summary (local PDF)
- Local News Coverage
The following articles are primarily from the Mount Desert Islander, with gracious permission for reproducing copyrighted material related to the MDI plastics effort, unless otherwise specified.
Every attempt has been made to provide both the online and print versions of the articles.
Dates refer to the date specified in the online version, followed by print date in parentheses.
The online version is presented in three forms: a screenshot, a link to the original, and a PDF of the text.
The print version (generally reorganized for more compact presentation) is presented in both a scanned JPG image and "printed" PDF.
- Opinion -- Letters to the Editor, Op-Eds, Editorials
(Dates are online date followed by print date in parentheses; source is the Mount Desert Islander, with gracious permission for reproducing copyrighted material related to the MDI plastics effort, unless otherwise specified)
| Jan 18 (17) |
Christa Little-Siebold:
Bag snags (Ellsworth American) |
link |
text |
n/a |
| Jan 18 (17) |
Editorial:
Out of sight, not out of mind |
link |
text |
image |
| Jan 18 (10 & 17) |
Keith Davis:
Dangers of plastic pollution |
link |
text |
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image2 |
| Jan 11 (10) |
Darron Collins:
Ban single use plastic bags
and polystyrene containers |
link |
text |
image |
| Jan 4 (3) |
Jill Higgins:
Listening to our youth |
link |
text |
image |
| Jan 4 (3) |
Doug Bird:
In support of bag ban |
link |
text |
image |
| Dec 28 (27) |
Mary Ann Handel, Ted Koffman,
Vanessa Little, Kate Macko:
Plastic bag ordinance |
link |
text |
image |
| Nov 30 (29) |
Editorial:
Ripple effect |
link |
text |
image |
| Nov 30 (29) |
Dick Atlee:
Missing the point (response to Rolfes) |
link |
text |
image |
| Nov 23 (22) |
Tom Rolfes:
Bag ban won't address ocean pollution |
link |
text |
image |
| Nov 23 (22) |
Craig Kesselheim, Beth Dilley:
Kudos to the students |
link |
text |
image |
| Nov 2 (1) |
Gary Shellehamer:
Effects of microplastics |
link |
text |
image |
| Aug 10 (9?) |
Sam Murray op-ed:
The problem with plastics |
link |
text |
n/a |
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