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State of Maine

Resources for Electronics Procurement, Operation and Maintenance, and End of Life Management

SEC Point of Contact

• Peter Cooke
  

  Assistant Director, Office of Innovation and Assistance
  Maine Department of Environmental Protection
  312 Canco Road
  Portland, ME 04103
  
  
  www.state.me.us/dep
  tel:  (207) 791-8101
  fax: (207) 822-6303
  

Procurement

• Division of Purchases, assisted by the Office of Information & Technology, oversees the purchase of electronics. The State does utilize the EPEAT standards in the selection of new equipment.

Operation & Maintenance

• The Clean Government Initiative was established to help state agencies and state-supported institutions of higher learning meet applicable environmental compliance requirements and to incorporate environmentally sustainable practices into all state government functions.

End of Life Management

• The Division of Purchases oversees management of electronics at the end of their useful life through their Surplus Division.

• Maine’s ‘E-waste’ law - Requires manufacturers, consumers and government to share responsibility for the recycling of computer monitors and televisions generated as wastes by households in Maine.

• Computer Recycling in Maine – What Schools, Businesses and homeowners should know.

• Cell Phone Reuse and Recycling Programs in Maine

• Rechargeable Battery Management & Recycling Program

• For specific information on individual municipal solid waste management and recycling programs and services, please visit: http://www.maine.gov/spo/recycle/