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Talking Trash: Follow the garbage Southeast ships south
Household garbage from Sitka, Ketchikan and three other Southeast Alaska cities ends up in the Roosevelt Regional Landfill in Klickitat County, Washington. (Photo by Tom Banse/Northwest News Network)...
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Talking Trash: In Ketchikan, you can salvage stuff from the landfill
Artist Halli Kenoyer, left, uses recycled trash to build a set piece for a community theater production. Ketchikan issues permits for locals who want to salvage metal, bowling balls and whatever else...
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Talking Trash: You bought it. You tossed it. Now rural towns struggle to ship...
Juneau’s Hazbin program diverts about 2,000 pounds of hazardous waste a month from having to be shipped to the Lower 48. (Photo by Elizabeth Jenkins/Alaska’s Energy Desk) When a household cleaner or a...
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Talking Trash: Composting startup tackles Juneau’s green waste
Lisa Daugherty, owner of Juneau’s sole composting service, empties residential green waste into her truck on Aug. 25. (Photo by Jacob Resneck/KTOO) Compostable waste makes up nearly a quarter of the...
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Talking Trash: The garbage that doesn’t make it to the dump
At an informal, and illegal, dump 25 miles out the Haines Highway, residents have tossed everything from old washing machines to broken chest freezers. (Photo by Abbey Collins/KHNS) Haines is a scenic...
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Talking Trash: Isolated Gustavus deals with national park-sized garbage problem
Gustavus’s Disposal and Recycling Center manager Paul Berry stands atop bales of municipal solid waste buried at the city’s landfill site. (Photo by Jacob Resneck/KTOO) Operating a landfill off the...
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Talking Trash: Once a bear attractant, Yakutat’s dump now award-winning
Yakutat’s dump was out of state compliance for decades, attracting bears at all hours. Through new staff, a 1 percent sales tax, and grant money from the Yakutat Tlingit Tribe, the city now operates...
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Talking Trash: Glass reused in Southeast landfills
A pile of glass at the Petersburg landfill gets crushed and used in layers to build a road. (Photo by Angela Denning/KFSK) Many communities in Southeast Alaska recycle, but none of them recycle glass...
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Some of Southeast’s recycling is headed to the landfill
Sitka’s recycling center has separate bins for different reusable materials. But its mixed paper containers are gone, due to new restrictions tied to import rules in China. (Photo by Robert...
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Alaska recyclers find new overseas markets
Cardboard and plastics pile up at the Juneau Recycling Center on April 28. Some recyclables are no longer accepted by China, one of the world’s largest buyers. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)...
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