News Coverage

A small selection of coverage from Maine Community Foundation’s management of the Lewiston-Auburn Area Response Fund, after the October 25, 2023 mass shooting:

Here are ways to donate or find help after the tragedy in Maine (WGME TV 13)

Lewiston has received an outpouring of donations after mass shooting. Here’s where they’re going (Maine Public)

Lewiston-Auburn Area Response Fund receives $1.8 million to help those affected by mass shooting (Lewiston Sun Journal & Portland Press Herald)

Lewiston mass shooting fundraiser collects over $4.5 million to help victims, families (WGME TV 13)

Lewiston shooting response fund closes Tuesday after raising more than $5 million (News Center Maine)

Victims fund pays out $4.7 million to Lewiston survivors, families (Maine Public)

Press releases & authored articles…

Recognizing Recycling Excellence (Resource Recycling)

Keeping Cool with ecomaine (Waste Advantage Magazine)

Maine waste-to-energy facility first in nation to commit to allelectric waste hauling trucks powered by trash (press release)

ecomaine to celebrate waste and recycling hauling community during pandemic (press release)

Other news clippings…

Maine recycling law targets packaging waste in bid to save taxpayers and climate (ABC National News)

How Maine is transforming who pays for recycling (PBS News Hour)

Pandemic garbage boom ignites debate over waste as energy (Associated Press)

Global pandemic reinforces importance of local recycling programs (Resource Recycling)

ecomaine: Striving for Excellence (Waste Advantage Magazine)

ecomaine recycling program returns in some southern Maine communities (News Center Maine & many other, similar local TV pieces on ecomaine’s recycling tagging program)

Is recycling broken? Don’t toss it out yet, say insiders. (Christian Science Monitor)

Maine’s recycling market recovers after years-long downturn (Portland Press Herald)

Inclusion in Maine Won’t Wait: A Four-Year Plan for Climate Action (Maine Governor’s Office of Innovation & The Future)

Keeping Cool with ecomaine (Waste Advantage Magazine)

Plastic pollution and the harms it causes, and what to know about recycling plastic (Maine Public Radio’s Maine Calling)

The latest news about recycling, and what can and cannot be recycled in Maine (Maine Public Radio’s Maine Calling)