Maine's Environmental Leader Certification
Restaurants
Visit our certified Maine Environmental Leader restaurants.
Become a certified Environmental Leader in the restaurant sector and receive free benefits:
- Environmental Leader flag and decals to display at your property.
- Environmental Leader logo to use for advertising (website, literature, decals, etc).
- A listing on a brochure available at the Maine Visitor’s Centers.
- Free on-going technical assistance from Maine Departmental of Environmental Protection on how to continue to reduce environmental impact while saving money.
How the program works:
- Complete the self-certification workbook by checking off all of the initiatives that your facility is currently undertaking. If you need assistance filling out the workbook, please call 1-800-452-1942 ask for Peter Cooke.
Please understand that not all of the items in the workbook are necessary; the workbook is a comprehensive list of the many different ways to generate points. Employing all of the initiatives in this workbook is unrealistic, so please use the ones that you have not yet implemented as recommendations.
- Calculate your estimated score by adding up all of the checked boxes.
- Send completed workbook [download MS Word format] to the DEP’s Pollution Prevention Program Manager or Fax it to Peter Cooke at 207-822-6303.
Peter Cooke
Maine Departmental of Environmental Protection
312 Canco Road
Portland, ME 04103
- Your workbook will be reviewed and receive a final score by the DEP’s Pollution Prevention Program Manager.
You do not need to have 100 points to participate in this program. Free technical assistance is available from DEP’s Pollution Prevention Program Manager to help any business achieve more points, regardless of point total. Low cost recommendations will be given to help businesses achieve more points.
If your business scores 100 points, your business qualifies for an automatic certification from the state for 2 years. In two years you will need to increase the point total to 130 to be eligible for a free re-certification.
If your business scores less 100 points, your business is eligible for a provisional certification which includes all the benefits of a fully certified business provided you agree to accumulate the remainder of the points within an agreed upon time frame.
- Upon final scoring of the workbook, you will be sent an official letter detailing your point total and possible low cost recommendations. You will also receive a desk-top Environmental Leader flag to display, an electronic Environmental Leader logo that you can begin using for marketing and advertising purposes, and 2 free Environmental Leader decals.
- The Pollution Prevention Program Manager will randomly select businesses for verification appointments throughout the year. These visits will be scheduled and not “unannounced”.
