When Wiscasset’s new town manager Marian Anderson set out to find what other towns have for bottle collection policies, she thought she might be able to collect some as examples to share with selectmen.

The bottle collection issue emerged just before Anderson started her Wiscasset job.

Selectman Bill Barnes had asked questions about the Wiscasset Transfer Station’s practice of letting nonprofits collect bottles there. He suggested the town take all the bottles that come to the station instead. The board could consider tapping the bottle redemption money when it gets requests, Barnes said back on Aug. 5. That night, selectmen discussed possibly setting a policy, covering points such as how long a nonprofit’s collection box could be at the station.

At the time, the board voted unanimously to talk again about the issue on Sept. 2. Then at the board’s Sept. 2 meeting, Anderson updated members.

“What I am working on now is finding out if there are other communities that have a policy that handles those types of questions, and what I have found out so far is that there are many towns (where) it has just happened ... for years and if we get a policy, they’d like to see it,” she said.

“So it’s still a work in progress,” Anderson said. “I thought the answer would be a little more available.”

She told selectmen she hopes to have more information for them at their Sept. 16 meeting.

Meanwhile, four local causes continue to have collection boxes taking bottles at the station, Superintendent Ron Lear said on Sept. 5. Those are the local Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, the American Legion and the St. Philip’s Church food pantry, Lear said.

Lear declined to give an opinion on how the town should deal with bottle collection requests.