2008 Guide To r e c y c l i n g

New 2007 Annual Report Anchorage ALPAR Programs Curbside Drop-Off Locations Recycling Guide to Materials You Can Recycle Maps and Info inside www.alparalaska.com

ALPAR is a non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating litter & increasing economically viable recycling in . The generous support of our member companies & other dedicated businesses throughout Alaska make ALPAR programs & services possible. ALPAR PROGRAMS Recycling Adopt-A-Pathway President’s Message 2008 ALPAR helps to promote economically Adopted pathways are kept free of viable recycling through education and litter by dedicated volunteers. 2008 marks ALPAR’s 25th year of service to Alaska’s communities. It is a time to public awareness, placement of drop- celebrate our successes and continue to look to the future. ALPAR’s commitment to ALPAR Youth off sites for recyclables and assisting the environment through innovative recycling and litter prevention programs has Litter Patrols never been more apparent. As always, great partnerships with Alaska’s businesses and with the backhaul of materials to communities have played a vital role in our success. Outside markets. Shipping for a large ALPAR’s oldest program provides portion of the recyclables in the grants to communities for summer We are especially proud of ALPAR’s long-term backhaul program for the Railbelt jobs picking up litter. Youth help clean that ships recyclables to the lower 48. Horizon Lines and TOTE, and in recent years, Railbelt is accomplished thanks to Lynden and Northland Services have generously contributed millions of dollars in the generosity of Totem Ocean Trailer up and recycle litter and and remind free backhaul services since the early 1980’s. As a result, our partners at Smurfit Express, Horizon Lines of Alaska, everyone to dispose of litter properly. Stone Recycling and Valley Community for Recycling Solutions are able to provide AML/Lynden, the and Community Clean Up on-going, economically viable recycling services to our communities. Northland Services. These companies Since the mid-80’s, rural communities have embraced ALPAR’s Flying Cans have made recycling work for 25 years. Across Alaska recycling program thanks to Northern Air Cargo and many bush airlines, recycling Volunteers all over the state help clean 21,750 lbs of aluminum cans in 2007 alone. ALPAR’s recycling grants help fund ALPAR Flying Cans up their communities every spring. In programs as diverse as refurbishing recycling containers in Sand Point to purchasing Rural communities recycled 22,000 2007, ALPAR supplied over 250,000 free, a scale in Kwigillingok and sponsoring electronics recycling in Fairbanks. pounds of aluminum cans in 2007 bright yellow clean up bags to over 220 This past year, ALPAR began a new initiative to educate and encourage businesses thanks to Northern Air Cargo and communities and groups thanks in large to institute plastic bag recycling and conservation programs that will curb litter and member airlines of the Alaska Air part to BP and Pepsi. ALPAR’s free, green increase plastic recycling. Carriers Association, ALPAR’s backhaul recycle bags help communities with ALPAR continues to help clean up the state through our massive distribution of partners. aluminum recycling. the free bright yellow litterbags. With support from BP, we sent litter bags to over 220 communities and organizations across Alaska. And with help from ConocoPhillips, School Recycling Christmas Tree ALPAR funded Youth Litter Patrols in 82 communities providing summer jobs for Kids, with help from dedicated youth and cleaning up throughout the summer. Recycling, Nursery teachers, earn money for their schools Pot Recycling & more I am honored to serve as ALPAR’s president for 2008-09. Thank you to our dedicated by bringing cans to the Anchorage board members, corporations, community organizations and volunteers who have During and after the holidays, worked diligently to support recycling and a litter-free Alaska for 25 years! Recycling Center. ALPAR’s school Christmas trees are dropped off at posters help encourage students to CARRS parking lots in Anchorage and Best Regards, reduce, reuse and recycle. Palmer, where they are recycled into wood chips for use on local trails and Can-Do Kids gardens. Our one-day September Kids CAN DO a great job of recycling! Nursery Pot recycling event in They earn pocket money and prizes Anchorage helps with these hard-to- when they turn in aluminum cans at the Joe Gulley recycle containers. CARRS/Safeway Anchorage Recycling Center. VOLUNTEERS are great! Alaska’s communities are cleaner when everyone works together – our sincere thanks to the many volunteers who donate their time to help keep Alaska beautiful. Call for information on how to participate 274-3266 Anchorage Drop-off locations Community Drop Bins Open 24-Hours* Anchorage Landfill Glass, Mixed Paper, Flat Cardboard, Anchorage Recycling Center Alum. Cans, Newspaper Carrs Gambell 3rd & A Lot Alum. Cans, Newspaper Carrs Eagle River Flat Cardboard Northway Mall Alum. Cans, Newspaper Inlet View Elementary Alum. Cans, Newspaper, Alum. Cans, Newspaper Wonder Park Elementary 6161 Rosewood at Dowling Alum. Cans, Newspaper MERRILL DeBarr Between Old and New Seward Highway, behind the NAPA store. Brown Jug Warehouse FIELD Boniface Carrs Debarr Road Aluminum, Glass Alum. Cans, Newspaper Carrs Mall at Sears Muldoon 562-2267 • M–F 9am - 4pm, Closed Lunch Noon-12:30pm Alum. Cans, Newspaper Northern Lights

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Arctic NOTE ON GLASS: Glass is no longer accepted at the Northway Mall. Lake Otis Northern Lights * Carrs Aurora Village Drop Bins open 24 hours - exception: Seward Hwy Alum. Cans, Newspaper Tudor Road Carrs Muldoon Road Old Seward Hwy Alum. Cans, Newspaper Anchorage Regional Landfill bins open M-F 7:30am – 5pm, Sat. 8am-5pm International Airport Road Lake Otis Elementary

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C Street Northwood Elementary Alum. Cans, Newspaper Alum. Cans, Newspaper Anchorage Recycling Center Materials You Can Recycle Most Materials - Full Service Alaska Metals Recycling Aluminum Cans Office Paper (White and colored) Metals Carrs Abbott Sites are located throughout Anchorage Recycling Center. Call for Alum. Cans, Newspaper Dimond Boulevard Abbott Road Anchorage (see map). Locations sorting instructions, 562-2267. Total Reclaim include: Carrs, Anchorage Recycling Electronics Plastic — Must Be Sorted!!! O'Malley Road Center, Alaska Metal Recycling, Carrs Jewel Lake Carrs Huffman Road Anchorage Regional Landfill. PLASTIC BOTTLES: Soda, Water, Alum. Cans, Newspaper Klatt Road Alum. Cans, Newspaper All colors. —NO: Salad-bar/Food Mears Middle School Huffman Road Cardboard (corrugated only, with containers* PLASTIC JUGS: Milk, water, Alum. Cans, Newspaper wavy line cross-section and not detergent­ —NO: tubs, buckets, cups.* waxed) at Anchorage Recycling Center PLASTIC BAGS/FILM: Shopping bags, or Anchorage Regional Landfill. ziploc bags, shrink wrap, newspaper Electronics & Vehicles sleeves. Anchorage Recycling Center. Fluorescent Bulbs Saleable automobiles; call Glass Bottles (any color of the Salvation Army, 562-5408. container glass—please empty and Bins for plastic shopping bags are Total Reclaim, 12101 Industry Way remove lids) also located at Carrs, Fred Meyer& #C4, 561-0544 Natural Wood Anchorage Recycling Center, Walmart. *Plastic NO-NOs: NO caps, Anchorage Wood Lot NO food residue, NO containers that Foam Packing Peanuts No dimensional lumber Anchorage Landfill, The Mail Cache, 563-3131 SET UP Brown Jug Warehouse held hazardous materials such as oil or 677-7645 • www.aswcd.org anti-freeze. NO butter tubs or cups. NO Mail Boxes Etc. RECYCLING Grass Clippings, Yard Waste, containers without a neck. Recycle it (Multiple locations, check your Materials You Should AT YOUR OFFICE Branches, etc. Right to keep the program going! telephone directory.) Dispose of Safely Smurfit Stone Recycling Evergreen Nursery Green Waste Scrap Metals (Aluminum, copper, The Packaging Store Antifreeze, paint, batteries, (Anchorage Recycling Center) Facility, 760 E. 120th Ave. off Old brass and stainless steel) Ink/Toner Cartridges used motor oil, etc. Call 562-2267 to learn how. Seward Highway (turn at the red video Various types - Call for info: Call Solid Waste Services at Green Star, 278-7839, Cartridge World 569-4INK, www.greenstarinc.org store and 2 blocks west) 344-2588 Anchorage Recycling Center, Valley Recycling Center. 343-6298 ext. 4 or 428-1742. 562-2267. Mixed Paper & Paperboard Building Materials (Magazines, catalogs, junk mail, Alaska Metal Recycling, Why do we 9705 King St., 349-4833 Donate or buy old and new cereal boxes, soft-cover books with building materials at Habitat for FAQ: recycle Plastic glue binding, manila folders) Telephone Books Humanity’s ReStore, 743-8060. at Anchorage Recycling Center (Call April 15 to July 31. Bottles & Jugs only? for sorting instructions, 652-2267) or Anchorage Recycling Center; Appliances In Alaska, only #1 plastic bottles and #2 plastic bottles/jugs are Anchorage Regional Landfill. all Carrs Stores Call for instructions, accepted - all must have a neck and screw top. Containers without a Sponsored by ACS (564-1010) Alaska Metal Recycling, 349-4833 neck such as tubs, buckets or clear salad bar containers contain different Newspaper and GCI. After event, recycle Anchorage Regional Landfill chemicals than bottles/jugs even though they may use the same resin Sites are located throughout in Mixed Paper. (#1 or #2), which does not allow mixing with bottles/jugs in the melting Anchorage (see map). Locations Clothing process. “Non-bottles” are much lower in value and lower in volume include Carrs stores (bins are in Steel Cans Donate to your favorite charity or as a percentage of all plastic containers which makes them much less parking lots), Anchorage Recycling Anchorage Recycling Center, thrift store. Bins available from economical to recycle. Plastics require strict sorting and since Alaska Center, Anchorage Regional Landfill, 562-2267; ARC of Anchorage and doesn’t yet have a sorting facility, YOU must sort them properly at home. Anchorage Daily News. Alaska Metal Recycling, 349-4833 Big Brothers & Big Sisters. Don’t forget, you can also recycle plastic bags and film. Call orlogintoyourserviceprovider (seemap)at: and whenservicewillbecomingtoyourarea, For more information onsigningupforservice for furtherprocessing. they are baledandshippedtoSeattle Recycling Center(Smurfit-Stone)where All materialsare processed bythe Anchorage phasing intheirprogram inOctober2008. 2008 andMuniSolid Waste Serviceswillbegin Alaska Waste begancommingledcurbsideinSpring (see mapforboundaries.) Alaska Waste andMuniSolid Waste Services. The tworesidential service providers are is growing in Anchorage! Commingled curbsiderecycling Curbside YES Recyclable You canplace all “accepted” itemsinone96-galloncart–no sortingnecessary! What ’s CommingledCurbside? • • • • • www.alaskawaste.com cereal boxes, paper bags, glossypaper copy orcolored paper, softcoverbooks, egg cartons, Mixed Paper: Cardboard: remove topsandempty contents Plastic HDPE#2B OTTLES/JUGS NLY: empty contents Plastic PET#1BOTTLSNLY: Aluminum andsteelfoodcans: Alaska Waste 563-3717 Items Mustbeflattenedto fit intocontainer Newspaper, magazines, junk mail, acceptable Recyling i n Anchorage 343-6250• www.muni.org/sws Municipality of Anchorage removecapsand Solid Waste Services emptyandrinse, labelsOK Curbside: Little CampbellLk.

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Alaska - Cleaner and Greener! ALPAR is helping Alaskans use plastic bags wisely! Recycling Programs Statewide ALPAR Flying Cans Program Communities off the road system can participate in this ALPAR’s In-Store free aluminum can backhaul program and get paid for cans. Thanks to program sponsors Northern Air Cargo Plastic Bag Recycling, Reuse & Conservation and small airlines of the Alaska Air Carriers Association. ALPAR: (907)644-9968. Toolkit for Retailers Bethel City of Bethel Public Works Dept www.cityofbethel.org Best Practices For Alaska’s Retailers Recycling Center: (907)543-7072 Aluminum cans, scrap metals, newspaper, office paper, Download at www.alparalaska.com plastic #1 bottles and #2 bottles and jugs or call ALPAR for more information: (907)644-7968 Copper Valley Recycling Our Areas Resources Glennallen: Hotline: 822-6777 Copper Valley Development Association www.coppervalley.org Alaska’s Newsprint Recycler New & used building materials Alaska’s Electronics Recycler Fairbanks Manufacting Insulation, Hydroseeding Mulch, Recycle and save at the same time: Donate and Electronics and other hard-to-handle materials, Northern Environmental Center including fluorescent lamps, refrigerant gases and Animal Bedding, Asphalt Binders shop for new and used building materials at the Recycling Information: www.northern.org appliances, DVDs, CDs, batteries and much more. (907) 452-5021 IMPORTANT NOTE TO CURBSIDE USERS*: Habitat ReStore You can support this great Alaska business by separating your www.totalreclaim.com • (907) 561-0544 Interior Alaska Greenstar: www.iagreenstar.org newsprint and taking to your neighborhood drop off site. *When you 5023 Cordova St., • 743-8060 (907)452-4152 commingle your newsprint at the curb, it goes to Seattle for recycling. www.hfhanchorage.org Electronics events and other programs. www.thermo-koolofalaska.com • (907)563-3644 EK Industries Glass Recycling right here in Alaska Juneau Important Events Manufacturing Sandblast Media, Filtration Media, City & Borough Public Works and other recycled-glass aggregates www.juneau.org/pubworks • ACS Phonebook Round Up 344-5099 in Anchorage Recycle Center: 5600 Tonsgard April 15 - July 31 Aluminum Cans, Newsprint, Cardboard, Mixed Paper, White Paper, Plastic: Bottles, Jugs, Bags, Glass, Steel Cans • GCI Phonebook Recycling Alaska’s largest metals recycler Business Recycling April 15 - July 31 www.alaskametalrecycling.com • Alaska State Fair Recycling Services - Anchorage Borough Solid Waste Department Smurfit Stone Recycling 562-2267 Recycle Drop-offs all over the Kenai! August 2009 Hotlines To Remember www.borough.kenai.ak.us/solidwaste (907) 262-9667 ALPAR Recycling Hotline...... 274-3266 Alaska Metal Recycling 349-4833 Aluminum Cans, Newsprint, Cardboard, Mixed Paper, Plastic • Anchorage Citywide Clean-Up Bottles, Jugs, Bags, Glass, Steel Cans, Batteries May 2009 Call for drop sites and sorting information. Total Reclaim (electronics) 561-0544 Muni Recycling Alaska Waste (hauling services) 563-3717 Ketchikan • Anchorage Creek Clean-Up Coordinator..... 343-6274 or 343-6275 www.alaskawaste.com City of Ketchikan Solid Waste Disposal May, 2009 • 272-7335 for Info Litter Hotline...... 343-NEAT McDonald Waste (hauling services) 278-4285 www.city.ketchikan.ak.us/departments/works/solid.html • ALPAR Christmas Tree Recycling Call to report litter problems in public areas. www.mcdonaldwaste.com (907) 225-2370 December 28 – January 15 Tongass Conservation Society Graffiti Hotline...... 343-GONE Girmsheid Enterprises (hauling services) 770-1720 Call to report graffiti. www.tongassconservation.org/issues/recycling.html • Nursery Pot Recycling [email protected] Code Enforcement...... 343-4141 907.225.3275 Alaska Botanical Garden Call to report junk cars. Recycle Alaska (shredding) 563-6045 September • Call 644-7968 for Info Kodiak Mat-Su Recycling Hotline..... 745-5544 Shred Alaska 929-1154 • Anchorage Recycles Day Threshold Recycling Adopt-A-Highway...... 338-1466 www.shredyourpaper.com (907)486-6554 - www. thresholdserviceskodiak.org November 15 • Call ALPAR for info, 644-7968 Adopt-A-Road...... 343-8478 Loomis Fargo (shredding) 563-3722 • Prince William Sound Adopt-A-Pathway...... 274-3266 Mat-Su Valley Beach Clean-up Adopt-A-Bus Stop...... 343-8230 May –Summer • Gulf of Alaska Keeper 345-0166 Valley Community for Recycling Solutions Central Landfill Adopt-A-Trail/Park...... 343-4288 Interim Site • Green Star Green Events 745-5544 • www.valleyrecycling.org Adopt-A-Garden...... 343-4288 Community Set up recycling at your event: 278-7839 Wednesday - Friday 12 noon - 6pm• Saturday 11am - 3pm Recycling Adopt-A-Bed...... 562-7020 Center • Electronic Recycling Events – Fairbanks Near the intersection of Palmer-Wasilla Hwy & 49th State St. G lenn Hwy. McDonald’s 49th State St. Call Interior Green Star Scoop-the-Poop...... 343-4288 Plastic jugs, bottles, glass, newspaper, mixed paper, alum. cans & more. Carrs Car Palmer-Wasilla Hwy. (907) 452-4152 • www.iagreenstar.org Waterways Watch...... 272-7335 24-hour Drop off for Newspaper and Aluminum Cans Wash 2 0 0 8 Executive 2008 Award Winners Committee Joe Gulley, ALPAR honors these individuals, schools & businesses who have made exceptional President contributions to Alaska through their recycling & litter control efforts in 2007. Carrs/Safeway Roger Briley,* 2007 Outstanding Litter Program 2007 Leadership in Education First Vice President Anchorage Chamber Citywide Cleanup Kevin Harun, Municipality of Anchorage Pepsi Cola Bottling Company Ken Privratsky, 2007 President’s Award 2007 Outstanding Recycling Program 2007 Outstanding Anchorage School Second Vice President For Outstanding Service Kenai Peninsula Borough Recycling Program Horizon Lines of Alaska, LLC Ken Privratsky, Horizon Lines 2007 Outstanding Supporter Inlet View Elementary Keith Sopp* Secretary 2007 Board of Directors’ Award Carla Beam, BP 2007 Outstanding Partner GCI For Outstanding Service 2007 Outstanding Business Recycler Alaska Waste Jeff Lowenfels, Treasurer Smurfit Stone Recycling Salvation Army Lewis & Lowenfels 2007 Contributor of the Year 2007 Outstanding Youth Litter Patrol Congratulations Scott Smith, Totem Ocean Trailer Express Alaska Military Youth Academy - Anchorage Past President to all! Anchorage Media Group Board of A Special Thank-You To Our Shippers! Directors Mike Beck SPONSORS The News Group Michael Blewett We’re making great things happen! TOTEM OCEAN Fred Meyers TRAILER Ken Carter Platinum Sponsors Anchorage Daily News EXPRESS, INC. Horizon Lines Jimmy Doyle* Weaver Brothers N O RTHERN AIR CARG O TOTE Craig Gales BP Alaska Waste Don Grasse* Carrs/Safeway K & L Distributors Tom Johnston Northern Air Cargo Alaska DOT & PF Joy Journeay Lynden, Inc. Alaska Air Carriers Assoc. ConocoPhillips George Lowery Totem Ocean Trailer Express MOA Solid Waste Services Bill Odom* Odom Corporation Solid-Gold Flying Cans Brian Potvin Supporters Brown Jug Odom Corp. Iliamna Air Taxi Airlines Island Air Lynden Transport Airland Transport Carr Gottstein Properties Pepsi Cola Northern Air Cargo PenAir Alaska Air Carriers Association Coca-Cola PTP Management Arctic Circle Air Sean Skaling Green Star Alaska Botanical Garden Fred Meyers Smurfit-Stone Recycling Arctic Transportation Services (ATS) Tanana Air Service Alaska Railroad GCI Span Alaska Bering Air Warbelow's Air Ventures Tom Turner Wright Air Service Alaska Waste Green Star The News Group Everts Air Cargo Mary Fisher Anchorage Media Group K & L Distributors Total Reclaim Frontier Flying Service Executive Director Anchorage Daily News Lewis & Lowenfels United Freight Grant Aviation printed on *Past President Anchorage Press Northland Services Weaver Brothers Hageland Air Service recycled paper