Only in Maine

WTF [USER=288]@longcast[/USER] you got me poofed

Mission accomplished. lol. 😂

Mission accomplished. lol. 😂

Thanks Pal 🍷 🍷

[Reality Check: Forbes Just Proved Maine Is Full of Selfish Idiots]('https://wjbq.com/reality-check-maine-is-full-of-selfish-idiots/')

Crap, now we have to check if you're editing the HTML code???

Guess what, that's a POOFing crime, and it doesn't break my heart to type this...

Passing editorial comments in to make it look like they came with the link is the POOFING crime. No where in the radio station's rant, nor the actual Forbes article was the wording in your link posted. Additionally Maine wasn't #1 for The Worst States for Drunk Driving List. We came as #8 which is certainly nothing to brag about. The point of the radio station rant was to point out DUI is a mark of selfishness...

I have no problem with articles that dis Maine, the more the merrier!! I actually like it, keeps the Riff-Raff down, especially those who read and heed lists like Forbes. Surprised no one has started posting the classic Maine Winter Stupid Human Tricks of which we've had a bunch of already this winter because of the pitifully warm conditions, at least 1 snow sled falling through the ice on the lake, along with more than a few people going for a "swim", and they weren't Polar Bear Club members...

Hmmmm, now that I think about it, we haven't had enough snow for the weekly classic snow sled accidents which include fatalities. Now there's a DUI category we'd probably rank #1 in!!!!!!

So please stay away, there's nothing of interest here...

Now we have poof crimes? I’ll accept my punishment.

Not really "ONLY" in Maine, but apparently we're dragging our feet on this ludicrous one. I wonder who's going to monitor our trash???

[HEADING=2][SIZE=7]Maine may join rest of New England in banning food scraps from landfills[/SIZE][/HEADING]
Supporters want lawmakers to do something about rotting food waste, which produces dangerous levels of methane gas. But critics of the proposal say a ban would be too costly for the state and businesses.

State lawmakers say it’s time for Maine to catch up with the rest of New England and pass a law to keep food scraps out of the trash – an act supporters claim would reduce food insecurity, save towns and cities money, and slow climate change.

In 2022, almost 60,000 tons of food waste was sent to rot in Maine landfills, according to national models, producing more than 2,000 tons of methane, a greenhouse gas that is more than 28 times as potent as carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere.

Surplus food disposal was the environmental equivalent of driving 30,000 gas-powered cars for a year.

“Waste has been an issue from the very beginning, and this is a way to mitigate it starting now,” said Rep. Stanley Zeigler, D-Montville, who introduced the bill. “I get tired of not doing anything. We have a chance to do something here, to move forward. Let’s do it.”

The bill, which was endorsed by a legislative committee earlier this month, would phase in a limited ban on the landfilling or incinerating of food waste. It would require non-agricultural commercial producers in populated areas to donate edible leftovers and recycle their food scraps.

The initial bill would have given the state Department of Environmental Protection the power to expand the ban to residential households, as Vermont has done, but opposition prompted Ziegler to drop the residential component to improve the bill’s chances at passage before the full House and Senate.

The amended bill requires Maine to roll out its ban slowly, starting in 2026 with those generating 2 tons of food waste a week within 20 miles of an organics recycler. In 2028, DEP would broaden who must follow the law to include 1-ton food waste producers located within 25 miles of a recycler.

Eventually, the state could expand the ban to those making as little as 100 pounds of food waste a week.

Under the terms of the bill, food waste producers would have to donate edible food before they resorted to agricultural use, such as feeding animals, or to recycling, such as composting or anaerobic digestion for the production of fertilizer, biogas or animal bedding.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the United Nations have each set goals to cut household food waste in half by 2030 to slash methane emissions, which they say is the only way the world can achieve the temperature limits set in the 2015 Paris Agreement.

The bill still has a long way to go before it becomes a reality. It would require approval of the House and Senate, and because it would require at least one DEP hire to write the rules and license recyclers, it also needs approval from the appropriations committee before heading to Gov. Janet Mills for consideration.

The Office of Fiscal and Program Review has yet to calculate the cost of the bill.

Maine doesn’t have a lot of hard data on food waste, which it estimates may make up as much as 40% of its solid waste stream. The DEP would rather wait to act on the bill until it completes two studies, one of which is due back in April, to find out exactly how much food waste is produced and where it winds up.

According to ReFED, a New York-based nonprofit focused on food waste, Maine likely produced about 425,000 tons of surplus food in 2022. According to its estimates, about 67.1% of that was wasted: 31% incinerated, 14% landfilled and 22.1% left to rot in the field or dumped.

Only a third of it was put to good use: 18.6% was composted; 9.5% went to feed animals; and 2.8%, or 2.8 tons, was donated to food rescue organizations. About 1% was used to fertilize farm fields, and half a percent was taken to an anaerobic digester to be turned into biogas.

Mainers sent $976 million worth of food to incinerators and $440 million to landfills, ReFED said.

Supporters say the excess edible food could be used to feed Mainers at risk of going hungry. According to the Maine Department of Education, 1 in 4 children in Maine is food insecure, and about a third of those are children who do not qualify for public assistance.

In Vermont, food donation is reported to have tripled since its law passed in 2012.

One of HospitalityMaine’s board members, Steve DiMillo, said the bill isn’t needed because large organic waste generators already take steps to reduce unnecessary food production, donate what they can’t sell, and use an organics recycler if one is nearby.

DiMillo said he sends 100% of the food waste produced at his Portland eatery, DiMillo’s on the Water, to Agri-Cycle, an anaerobic digestion operation launched in 2013 to help manage the manure for a fifth-generation dairy farm in Exeter.

Recycling his food waste through Agri-Cycle is a little more expensive than paying higher hauling fees to simply throw it out, DiMillo said, but not so expensive as to stop him from doing what he knows is right for his local community and customers.

Adding a layer of government reporting to the recycling process will only drive the costs higher, he said.

“I didn’t need the state to tell me to compost,” DiMillo said. “I did it because it’s the right thing to do and because I could afford to, not because somebody made me. These government mandates can make or break a struggling business. You’ve got to give them a chance.”

[HEADING=2][SIZE=5] There's an APB out for a missing llama!!![/SIZE][/HEADING]
[HEADING=2][SIZE=7]A baby llama has possibly been stolen from Maine farm[/SIZE][/HEADING]
[SIZE=7][IMG alt="The baby llama was just born in September and still too young to be on its own."] are asking Mainers to be on the lookout for a baby llama who was possibly stolen from a farm in Acton. Credit: Courtesy of Acton Animal Control Officer Jim Driscoll / CBS 13

Mainers should be on the lookout for a baby llama that was possibly stolen from a farm in Acton.

Acton Animal Control Officer Jim Driscoll was notified Sunday about a possibly stolen llama.

He is asking farmers and neighbors in the area of Foxes Ridge and County roads to look out for the animal.
The young llama is not old enough to be away from its mother. The animal was born in September.

“This young llama is usually glued to its mother’s hip; always stays very close to her,” Driscoll said.

Driscoll sees no way that the llama got out of its sturdy pen. He said llamas are pack animals and do not run away, especially babies.

There was no evidence that a predator got into the pen, according to Driscoll, who believes the animal was stolen.

The York County Sheriff’s Office is also investigating the incident.

Anyone with information about the llama’s whereabout can call Driscoll at 207-206-6065.[/SIZE]

Not really "ONLY" in Maine, but apparently we're dragging our feet on this ludicrous one. I wonder who's going to monitor our trash???

[HEADING=2][SIZE=7]Maine may join rest of New England in banning food scraps from landfills[/SIZE][/HEADING]
Supporters want lawmakers to do something about rotting food waste, which produces dangerous levels of methane gas. But critics of the proposal say a ban would be too costly for the state and businesses.

State lawmakers say it’s time for Maine to catch up with the rest of New England and pass a law to keep food scraps out of the trash – an act supporters claim would reduce food insecurity, save towns and cities money, and slow climate change.

In 2022, almost 60,000 tons of food waste was sent to rot in Maine landfills, according to national models, producing more than 2,000 tons of methane, a greenhouse gas that is more than 28 times as potent as carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere.

Surplus food disposal was the environmental equivalent of driving 30,000 gas-powered cars for a year.

“Waste has been an issue from the very beginning, and this is a way to mitigate it starting now,” said Rep. Stanley Zeigler, D-Montville, who introduced the bill. “I get tired of not doing anything. We have a chance to do something here, to move forward. Let’s do it.”

The bill, which was endorsed by a legislative committee earlier this month, would phase in a limited ban on the landfilling or incinerating of food waste. It would require non-agricultural commercial producers in populated areas to donate edible leftovers and recycle their food scraps.

The initial bill would have given the state Department of Environmental Protection the power to expand the ban to residential households, as Vermont has done, but opposition prompted Ziegler to drop the residential component to improve the bill’s chances at passage before the full House and Senate.

The amended bill requires Maine to roll out its ban slowly, starting in 2026 with those generating 2 tons of food waste a week within 20 miles of an organics recycler. In 2028, DEP would broaden who must follow the law to include 1-ton food waste producers located within 25 miles of a recycler.

Eventually, the state could expand the ban to those making as little as 100 pounds of food waste a week.

Under the terms of the bill, food waste producers would have to donate edible food before they resorted to agricultural use, such as feeding animals, or to recycling, such as composting or anaerobic digestion for the production of fertilizer, biogas or animal bedding.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the United Nations have each set goals to cut household food waste in half by 2030 to slash methane emissions, which they say is the only way the world can achieve the temperature limits set in the 2015 Paris Agreement.

The bill still has a long way to go before it becomes a reality. It would require approval of the House and Senate, and because it would require at least one DEP hire to write the rules and license recyclers, it also needs approval from the appropriations committee before heading to Gov. Janet Mills for consideration.

The Office of Fiscal and Program Review has yet to calculate the cost of the bill.

Maine doesn’t have a lot of hard data on food waste, which it estimates may make up as much as 40% of its solid waste stream. The DEP would rather wait to act on the bill until it completes two studies, one of which is due back in April, to find out exactly how much food waste is produced and where it winds up.

According to ReFED, a New York-based nonprofit focused on food waste, Maine likely produced about 425,000 tons of surplus food in 2022. According to its estimates, about 67.1% of that was wasted: 31% incinerated, 14% landfilled and 22.1% left to rot in the field or dumped.

Only a third of it was put to good use: 18.6% was composted; 9.5% went to feed animals; and 2.8%, or 2.8 tons, was donated to food rescue organizations. About 1% was used to fertilize farm fields, and half a percent was taken to an anaerobic digester to be turned into biogas.

Mainers sent $976 million worth of food to incinerators and $440 million to landfills, ReFED said.

Supporters say the excess edible food could be used to feed Mainers at risk of going hungry. According to the Maine Department of Education, 1 in 4 children in Maine is food insecure, and about a third of those are children who do not qualify for public assistance.

In Vermont, food donation is reported to have tripled since its law passed in 2012.

One of HospitalityMaine’s board members, Steve DiMillo, said the bill isn’t needed because large organic waste generators already take steps to reduce unnecessary food production, donate what they can’t sell, and use an organics recycler if one is nearby.

DiMillo said he sends 100% of the food waste produced at his Portland eatery, DiMillo’s on the Water, to Agri-Cycle, an anaerobic digestion operation launched in 2013 to help manage the manure for a fifth-generation dairy farm in Exeter.

Recycling his food waste through Agri-Cycle is a little more expensive than paying higher hauling fees to simply throw it out, DiMillo said, but not so expensive as to stop him from doing what he knows is right for his local community and customers.

Adding a layer of government reporting to the recycling process will only drive the costs higher, he said.

“I didn’t need the state to tell me to compost,” DiMillo said. “I did it because it’s the right thing to do and because I could afford to, not because somebody made me. These government mandates can make or break a struggling business. You’ve got to give them a chance.”

LOL, we had a county law where your trash could only be put out in clear plastic bags - so they could see inside if there was any recycling you weren't doing. If there was, you'd get an orange sticker and they'd leave it on the curb.

They either repealed it or stopped enforcing it.

Gordon Ramsey is in Maine now on the National Geographic Channel 😎👍🏻

Gordon Ramsey is in Maine now on the National Geographic Channel 😎👍🏻

That the one where he cooked against some lady on the grounds of the "Forest Gump" Marshall Point Lighthouse? That lady has multiple James Beard awards and her restaurant is in Rockland. We go there once in a while for very special occasions. I just eat appetizers, grilled octopus and foie gras...

That the one where he cooked against some lady on the grounds of the "Forest Gump" Marshall Point Lighthouse? That lady has multiple James Beard awards and her restaurant is in Rockland. We go there once in a while for very special occasions. I just eat appetizers, grilled octopus and foie gras...

Yes that’s the one 😎👍🏻

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And that is why R7 is particularly grouchy this morning about the news articles today!

And that is why R7 is particularly grouchy this morning about the news articles today!

Just because I publish daily lighthouse photos doesn't mean I'm actually in Maine. I don't have to actually be there to link to the webcam...

Turns out you couldn't be more wrong in that most of you are closer to Maine than I've been for the past 5 days. Since the Fat Princess Elsa has sung, I'll be starting my spring commissioning chores early this year.

WTH, if winter is over, I might as well declare spring and start getting the boat ready...

Look at that, it's foggy at home!!

No one cares where you are but we know that wherever you are you are on a computer and that’s a shame. Put the pipe down, it’s not good for the old brain of yours. For a guy that hates social media I never seen someone more active on social media. Just my 2 cents 🤣

For you, Mainards FYI

For you, Mainards FYI

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Already in the EV thread, didn't want to brag that we had the cajones to stand up to this BS. Sanity prevailed in killing that CA law clone proposal.

EVs might be fine in more urban/suburban environs, but the distances we travel is nuts. A plug in Hybrid's electric side wouldn't last for a round trip from my house to Lowes (45 mi), round trip for a loaf of bread, 22 mi.

I have no complaints about the distances, I enjoy my "remote" life, but folks who blindly push any single agenda need to consider all aspects of any situation. Once again, that funny word "Compromise" gets left in the dust...

Already in the EV thread, didn't want to brag that we had the cajones to stand up to this BS. Sanity prevailed in killing that CA law clone proposal.

EVs might be fine in more urban/suburban environs, but the distances we travel is nuts. A plug in Hybrid's electric side wouldn't last for a round trip from my house to Lowes (45 mi), round trip for a loaf of bread, 22 mi.

I have no complaints about the distances, I enjoy my "remote" life, but folks who blindly push any single agenda need to consider all aspects of any situation. Once again, that funny word "Compromise" gets left in the dust...

Kinda no different than any other one sided agenda no?
Whacko religious “christians” wanna jam their ideological BS down the rest of our throats as the law of the land based on their beliefs

Kinda no different than any other one sided agenda no?
Whacko religious “christians” wanna jam their ideological BS down the rest of our throats as the law of the land based on their beliefs

Which law? I know of no law forcing you to be Christian or any other religion for that matter.

Now if you are talking about the Constitution, well, I know, that document keeps getting in the way of some very sick people.