ecomaine, a municipally owned and operated recycling and waste disposal operation based in Portland, is soliciting nominees for its annual eco-Excellence Awards, which are given in recognition of outstanding recycling efforts.
Nominations must be received at ecomaine by Friday, Feb. 1. Entry forms can be found online at www.ecomaine.org or by calling 773-1738.
Each nomination must include the nominee’s name along with a brief description of the efforts on behalf of recycling. The awards are open to individuals or groups living or working in any of the 30 communities served by ecomaine.
The judging of entries will be done by members of the ecomaine Recycling Committee. Troy Moon, chairman of the committee, said all the award recipients would be invited to attend a luncheon given in their honor on March 18.
Past winners have included a high school ecology club that initiated a school-wide recycling awareness program, a volunteer recycling coordinator who organizes and operates the local transfer station swap shop, a local newspaper columnist who has written articles about recycling and a garbage collector who took time to explain recycling to his customers.
The 30 communities eligible to participate in the annual eco-Excellence Awards are as follows:
Baldwin, Bridgton, Cape Elizabeth, Casco, Cornish, Cumberland, Falmouth, Freeport, Gorham, Gray, Harrison, Hiram, Hollis, Limington, Lyman, Monmouth, Naples, North Yarmouth, Ogunquit, Parsonsfield, Porter, Portland, Pownal, Saco, Scarborough, South Portland, Standish, Waterboro, Windham and Yarmouth.
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