Speakers Bureau

ecomaine’s speaker’s bureau (PDF 206KB) is available to groups on weekdays and weeknights all year long. You may make arrangements to hold your meeting right at ecomaine’s Portland office or you may prefer to invite our speaker to visit your site. In either case, there is no cost for use of our space or for the speaker.

Once you have selected a topic of interest, please contact the speaker directly through his/her e-mail address or by phone at 207-773-1738 (weekdays). At that time, you can discuss dates, time, audience, and any items of particular interest to your group. Our speakers will do their best to accommodate you.

ecomaine is happy to offer group and individual tours of any of our three facilities

• Waste-to-Energy Plant
  (Please note: to tour our waste to energy plant you must be age 12 or older and be, at least,in the 7th grade.)
• Recycling Center
• Landfill / Ashfill

There is no cost to tour our facilities or to schedule a presentation. Click here for detailed information, then call 207-773-1738 to make arrangements.

We are also pleased to make presentations at elementary schools. We put specific focus on what happens to trash and the importance of recycling, however our presentation can be tailored to address individual classroom goals about waste management and a variety of related topics.

Adult- level presentations are also available.

Educational Activities & Resources

For Teachers & Students:

• EPA: Solid Waste Activities (grades 9-12)
• EPA: Educational Materials
• Recycling Maze (PDF 427KB)
• Earth Maze (PDF 565KB)
• Recycling Maze II (PDF 406KB)
• Secret Coded Message (PDF 537KB)
• Recycling Word Search (PDF 498KB)
• Take Home Recycling Kit Lesson Plan (PDF 68KB)
• Recycling is for the Birds Lesson Plan (PDF 36KB)
  

General Audience

• "A Brief History of Trash in the USA" By Brigit McCallum, member of the Waterboro Transfer Station and Recycling Committee (PDF 29KB)

• "The Science Behind Your Landfill" ecomaine (2.20 MB)

• EPA: Recycling (website link)

Research & Scientific Review

• Industrial Ecology: Scenarios for an Adaptable Future (Yale, 2010) 10.75 MB
• Industrial Ecology: The Humanistic side of Eco-Industrial Parks (Regional Studies Journal, 2008) 2.13 MB
• A Sustainability Comparison of Two Cities' Waste Streams (Harvard, 2010) 5.56 MB
• Recycling and Waste-To-Energy: Are They Compatible? (Governmental Advisory Associates, Inc., 2009) 175 KB
• Sustainability Strategy for Biddeford, Maine's Waste Management (Harvard, 2010) 891 KB
• Case History: Proactive Maintenance and Upgrades (Neundorfer, Inc., 2011)
  254 KB
• Statewide Economic Contribution of Maine's Waste-to-Energy Sector(October 2011) 770 MB

To gather information for research or scientific review, please complete an Interview Contract and mail to:

ecomaine Research Request
64 Blueberry Road
Portland, ME 04102

 

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