Cumberland County does not operate a solid waste collection program or codify pickup rules. Trash and recycling pickup schedules, containers and rates are set by each of the county's 28 municipalities, most of which contract with Casella Waste Systems and ecomaine.
Maine counties have no zoning or solid-waste regulatory authority for organized municipalities; Title 30-A M.R.S. § 3001 vests ordinance power in municipalities, and Title 38 M.R.S. § 2133 requires each municipality (not the county) to report biennially on its solid waste and recycling practices and demonstrate reasonable progress toward the state recycling goal in § 2132. Maine's solid waste management hierarchy under 38 M.R.S. § 2101 prioritizes source reduction, reuse, recycling, composting, volume reduction (incineration), and last land disposal — the framework that the ecomaine regional MRF and waste-to-energy plant at 64 Blueberry Road, Portland operates under for most of Cumberland County's municipalities. Residents must follow the pickup day, set-out time, and container rules published by their own town (e.g., Portland's purple-bag pay-as-you-throw, South Portland's automated carts, Cumberland's curbside contract with Casella).
Cumberland County imposes no penalty; missed-pickup and improper set-out fines are issued by the municipality (commonly $25–$100 civil tickets) or by the hauler refusing collection. Repeated illegal dumping in lieu of pickup falls under Title 17 M.R.S. § 2263-A.
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