If you want an example of how attitudes in Maine toward environmental stewardship have changed over the past 30 years, you might not have to go any further than your local landfill. Since the late 1980s, when the state took action to shut them down, the sites where hill-sized mounds of household trash and other discarded items leached pollution into the ground now have been capped off and closed.

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