LD231 • 2025

An Act to Update the Solid Waste Management Hierarchy

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Sponsor: Representative Richard Campbell
Last action: 2025-03-20
Official status: Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act to Update the Solid Waste Management Hierarchy

An Act to Update the Solid Waste Management Hierarchy Sponsor: Representative Richard Campbell Reference committee: Environment and Natural Resources Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

An Act to Update the Solid Waste Management Hierarchy Sponsor: Representative Richard Campbell Reference committee: Environment and Natural Resources Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

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Bill History

2025-03-20 Senate
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
2025-03-19 Committee
Reported Out; ONTP
2025-03-17 Committee
Work Session Held
2025-03-17 Committee
Voted; ONTP
2025-01-16 House
Received by the Clerk of the House on January 16, 2025. The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to Joint Rule 401.
2025-01-16 Committee
Referred to Committee on Environment and Natural Resources.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Update the Solid Waste Management Hierarchy
Sponsor:
Representative Richard Campbell
Reference committee:
Environment and Natural Resources
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 231
H.P. 154 House of Representatives, January 21, 2025
An Act to Update the Solid Waste Management Hierarchy
Received by the Clerk of the House on January 16, 2025. Referred to the Committee on
Environment and Natural Resources pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant
to Joint Rule 401.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative CAMPBELL of Orrington.
Cosponsored by Senator HAGGAN of Penobscot and
Representatives: DILL of Old Town, GREENWOOD of Wales, SOBOLESKI of Phillips.

Page 1 - 132LR0006(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 38 MRSA §2101, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2007, c. 583, §7, is further
3 amended to read:
41. Priorities. It is the policy of the State to plan for and implement an integrated
5 approach to solid waste management for solid waste generated in this State and solid waste
6 imported into this State, which must be based on the following order of priority:
7 A. Reduction of waste generated at the source, including both amount and toxicity of
8 the waste;
9 B. Reuse of waste;
10 B-1. Waste processing that reduces the volume of waste needing land disposal,
11 including incineration;
12 C. Recycling of waste;
13 D. Composting of biodegradable waste; and
14 E. Waste processing that reduces the volume of waste needing land disposal, including
15 incineration; and
16 F. Land disposal of waste.
17 It is the policy of the State to use the order of priority in this subsection as a guiding
18 principle in making decisions related to solid waste management.
19SUMMARY
20 This bill changes the policy of the State related to the integrated approach to solid waste
21 management by increasing the priority of waste processing that reduces the volume of
22 waste needing land disposal, including incineration, from the 5th priority of solid waste
23 management to the 3rd priority.
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