Keeping Alaska Beautiful ALPAR Is a Non-Profit Organization Dedicated to Eliminating Litter & Increasing Economically Viable Recycling in Alaska
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RECYCLING2010 GuiDe TO Anchorage CURBSIDE RECYCLING Maps and Info inside ALPAR Annual RePoRt • ALPAR Programs Drop-Off Locations • Guide to Materials You Can Recycle P12896 Keeping Alaska Beautiful ALPAR is a non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating litter & increasing economically viable recycling in Alaska. The generous support of our member companies & other www.alparalaska.comwww.alparalaska.com dedicated businesses throughout Alaska make ALPAR programs & services possible. ALPAR PROGRAMS Recycling Adopt-A-Pathway ALPAR helps to promote economically Adopted pathways are kept free of viable recycling through education and litter by dedicated volunteers. public awareness, placement of drop- off sites for recyclables and assisting ALPAR Youth with the backhaul of materials to Litter Patrols Outside markets. Shipping for a large ALPAR’s oldest program provides portion of the recyclables in the grants to communities for summer Railbelt is accomplished thanks to jobs picking up litter. Youth help clean the generosity of Totem Ocean Trailer up and recycle litter and and remind Express, Horizon Lines of Alaska, everyone to dispose of litter properly. AML/Lynden, the Alaska Railroad and Community Clean Up Northland Services. These companies Message from ALPAR’s President help make recycling work for Alaska. Across Alaska Volunteers all over the state help clean In our 27th year of serving Alaska’s communities, Alaskans for Litter Prevention and ALPAR Flying Cans up their communities every spring. In Recycling continues our mission to increase economically sustainable recycling and strengthen Rural communities recycled 27,000 2009, ALPAR supplied over 290,000 litter prevention statewide. pounds of aluminum cans in 2009 free, bright yellow clean up bags to In 2009, we provided assistance to a new recycling center at the Fairbanks Rescue Mission thanks to Northern Air Cargo and over 220 communities and groups that is now bringing new recycling opportunities for Fairbanks residents. We also began work member airlines of the Alaska Air thanks in large part to BP and Pepsi. on extending our ever-popular Flying Cans program for rural Alaska through a new pilot ALPAR’s free, green recycle bags help program for PET plastic bottles, thanks to our partnership with Northern Air Cargo and other Carriers Association, ALPAR’s backhaul great air carriers serving bush communities. partners. New for 2010: Flying PET communities with aluminum recycling. Plastic Bottles pilot program. ALPAR is especially proud of our backhaul program in the Railbelt that ships recyclables Christmas Tree to market in the lower 48. Thanks to our shippers, Horizon Lines, TOTE, Lynden, the Alaska School Recycling Railroad and Northland Services who generously contribute millions of dollars in backhaul Recycling, Nursery services, our communities are able to provide on-going, economically viable recycling services Kids, with help from dedicated to residents and businesses. Our outreach programs and grants are helping raise awareness teachers, earn money for their schools Pot Recycling & more about the many opportunities to recycle statewide, encouraging higher participation rates by bringing cans to the Anchorage During and after the holidays, that have a positive impact on our environment. Recycling Center. ALPAR’s school Christmas trees are dropped off at With ALPAR’s encouragement, more Alaska retailers have enhanced their in-store plastic CARRS parking lots in Anchorage and bag recycling and conservation programs for their customers reducing litter and increasing bag posters help encourage students to recycling and reuse. Thanks to CARRS/Safeway, Fred Meyer, Walmart, Target and others. reduce, reuse and recycle. Palmer, where they are recycled into wood chips for use on local trails and ALPAR’s business supporters make it possible to provide major assistance with litter clean Can-Do Kids up. Our massive distribution of the free bright yellow litterbags sponsored by our staunch gardens. Our one-day Nursery Pot partner, BP, are warehoused and shipped by Pepsi to over 220 communities and organizations Kids CAN DO a great job of recycling! recycling event in Anchorage helps across Alaska. And with help from ConocoPhillips, ALPAR continues our Youth Litter Patrol They earn pocket money and prizes with these hard-to-recycle containers. grant program in over 80 communities helping fund summer jobs for youth who clean up when they turn in aluminum cans at throughout the summer. the Anchorage Recycling Center. I am honored to serve as ALPAR’s president. Thank you to our dedicated board members, corporations, community organizations and volunteers who work diligently to further recycling and keep Alaska beautiful! And, on behalf of the entire ALPAR Board of Directors I would like to offer special recognition and thanks to our Executive Director, Mary Fisher, VOLUNTEERS whose contributions are key to ALPAR’s success. are great! Best Regards, 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 Michael Blewett Fred Meyer P12896 274-3266 ANCHORAGE DROP-OFF locations Community Drop Bins Open 24-Hours* Anchorage Landfill Mixed Paper, Flat Cardboard, Alum. Cans, Anchorage Recycling Center Newspaper, Plastic bottles/jugs (Steel cans coming soon) Carrs Gambell 3rd & A Lot Alum. Cans, Newspaper Carrs Eagle River Flat Cardboard Northway Mall Alum. Cans, Newspaper Inlet View Elementary Alum. Cans, Newspaper,Glenn Highway 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 Alum. Cans, Newspaper Carrs Mall at Sears Muldoon 562-2267 • M–F 9am - 4pm, Closed Lunch Noon-12:30pm Alum. Cans, Newspaper Northern Lights Pkwy Arctic Drop Bins open 24 hours - exception: Lake Otis Northern Lights Carrs Aurora Village Alum. Cans, Newspaper Seward Hwy Tudor Road Carrs Muldoon Road Anchorage Regional Landfill bins open M-F 7:30am – 5pm, Sat. 8am-5pm Old Seward Hwy Alum. Cans, Newspaper International Airport Road Lake Otis Elementary Minnesota Drive C Street Northwood Elementary Alum. Cans, Newspaper Materials You Can Recycle Alum. Cans, Newspaper Anchorage Recycling Center Most Materials - Full Service Aluminum Cans Anchorage Daily News. Alaska Metals Recycling Metals Carrs Abbott Sites are located throughout Office Paper (White and colored) Alum. Cans, Newspaper Anchorage (see map). Locations Anchorage Recycling Center. Call for Dimond Boulevard Abbott Road include: Carrs, Anchorage Recycling sorting instructions, 562-2267. Total Reclaim Center, Alaska Metal Recycling, Electronics Plastic — Must Be Sorted!!! O'Malley Road Anchorage Regional Landfill. Carrs Jewel Lake Carrs Huffman Road PLASTIC BOTTLES: Soda, Water, Alum. Cans, Newspaper Klatt Road Alum. Cans, Newspaper Cardboard (corrugated only, no All colors. —NO: Salad-bar/Food Mears Middle School Huffman Road waxed) at Anchorage Recycling containers* PLASTIC JUGS: Alum. Cans, Newspaper Center, Anchorage Regional Landfill, Milk, Water, Detergent, NO Tubs, 3rd & A (summer) or 3rd and C Buckets, or Cups* Anchorage Vehicles (winter) and 7801 Schoon St. Recycling Center and Anchorage Electronics & Schnitzer Steel Alaska, 349-4833 Landfill. PLASTIC BAGS/FILM: Glass recycling has Fluorescent Bulbs Saleable automobiles; call Glass Bottles Stretchy plastic film like grocery been suspended due to the glass Total Reclaim, 12101 Industry Way the Salvation Army, 562-5408. bags, drycleaning bags, bubble wrap, #C4, 561-0544 recycling business closing. MOA and shrink wrap, ziploc bags at Anchorage Construction/Demolition ALPAR are working to encourage the Recycling Center. Shopping bag Foam Packing Peanuts Debris private sector to develop a new glass recycling also at Fred Meyer, CARRS, The Mail Cache, 563-3131 Central Recycling Services SET UP recycling operation. Walmart, Target. *PLASTIC NO-NOS: Mail Boxes Etc. 2400 Railroad Ave. 748-7400 RECYCLING Grass Clippings, Yard Waste, NO caps, NO residue, NO hazardous (Multiple locations, check your AT YOUR OFFICE Branches, etc. materials containers, NO tubs, cups, telephone directory.) Materials You Should Smurfit Stone Recycling Evergreen Nursery 344-2588 clamshells. Containers must have a The Packaging Store Dispose of Safely www.alaskaevergreen.com NECK i.e. bottle or jug. (Anchorage Recycling Center) Ink/Toner Cartridges Antifreeze, paint, batteries, Call 562-2267 to learn how. Muni Woodlots 267-4980 Scrap Metals (Aluminum, copper, used motor oil, etc. (Eagle River/Girdwood) Cartridge World 569-4INK Green Star, 278-7839, brass and stainless steel) Cartridge Connection 563-9326 Call Solid Waste Services at www.greenstarinc.org www.muni.org/fire1/Woodlots.cfm Various types - Call for info: Office Depot 343-6298 ext. 4 or 428-1742. ASWCD Woodlot, 677-SOIL (Anchorage) Anchorage Recycling Center, www.aswcd.org/woodlot.html 562-2267. Building Materials Why do we Mixed Paper & Paperboard Schnitzer Steel Alaska, Donate or buy old and new FAQ: (Magazines, catalogs, junk mail, 9705 King St., 349-4833 building materials at Habitat for recycle Plastic cereal boxes, soft-cover books with Steel Cans Humanity’s ReStore, 743-8060. Bottles & Jugs only? glue binding, manila folders) Anchorage Recycling Center, coming Appliances In Alaska, only #1 plastic bottles and #2 plastic bottles/jugs are at Anchorage