Eco challenge — upcycle waste

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County, and also includes on-site features like a beauty salon, a physical and occupational therapy area, and a large outside courtyard. Like its other communities, Woodlands Memory Care of Bridgton will accept both private paying and MaineCare eligible individuals and families.

Woodlands Senior Living started in 1980 with a 39-resident boarding home in Hallowell. The organization has since grown to include 16 communities in 10 locations with the addition of Bridgton. The company was recently included in the 2021 Argentum & Lument Largest Providers Report, which provides data and information on 150 of the largest senior living providers in the United States. Woodlands ranked at #131 on the list, and is the only Maine-based senior living provider to make the 2021 list.

Woodlands was also honored earlier this year with the Large Business of the Year Award from the Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce.

Persons interested in more information about the community or to inquire about care are invited to call 207-8036615, or visit https://www. woodlandsmaine.com/location/bridgton/ ecomaine has launched its 2023 school-based Upcycle Challenge, which will award $500 to a participating student’s school.

The Upcycle Challenge asks students in ecomaine’s member communities to use items that ordinarily would have been disposed of, to make all-new, functional ones and submit them by Friday, March 31. From the submissions, ecomaine’s Outreach & Recycling Committee will select a group of finalists, based on the incorporation of post-consumer materials, the ingenuity and functionality of the new creation, inclusion of students in the process, as well as the approval from a

Following the determination of finalists, the designs will be voted on by the public through the end of Earth Month, April 2023.

In the past, the Upcycle Challenge has seen entries including:

• A working chandelier made from old plastic bottles

• A bike rack made from old bicycles

• Clothing fashioned from plastic, old fabric, and other materials

• Old clothing turned into hair scrunchies

• Furniture from old tires

• Movie projectors made from all kinds of would-bejunk materials “Every year, we’re