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State's role looms large in monitoring waste flow

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From: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
Date: 20070519
Author:OF THE NEWS STAFF; KEVIN MILLER

TAKING IN THE TRASH

On a recent sunny afternoon, George MacDonald was seated inside an office at the base of Juniper Ridge Landfill in Old Town when he recalled a favorite truism about one of modern society's growing problems.

Trash, MacDonald said, is something that everybody wants picked up, but no one wants put back down.

Enormous bulldozers could be seen crawling the mountain of trash outside, working to spread out several recent truckloads. MacDonald, who heads the State Planning Office's Waste Management and Recycling Program, motioned toward the state-owned landfill and added: "This is ...

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