Recycling Volunteer Opportunity

Hello Fairbanks Recyclers!

Interior Alaska Green Star is partnering with the Tanana Valley State Fair, Wal-Mart, K&K Recycling, and SCAN Fairbanks to coordinate recycling of beverage containers (plastic and aluminum) at the Fair next month and are looking for volunteers. Please see the information below from Darcie Warden, Executive Director of IAGS, to find out how you can help!

Be generous with your time for a great cause, and get a free day-pass to the fair for the day you volunteer!

Tanana Valley State Fair – Recycling Crew
Are you tired of seeing recyclable items like aluminum cans and plastic bottles get thrown away? Would you like to know that aluminum and plastic are properly disposed of and NOT filling up the precious space we have left in our local landfill? You can make a difference this August but volunteering at the Tanana Valley State Fair. This year at the Tanana Valley State Fair several businesses and community organizations are teaming up to recycle plastic and aluminum during the Fair. To make this a successful effort we need a volunteer team to empty aluminum and plastic recycling containers on the fair grounds and take the bags to the dumpsters located at the back of the fair grounds. This is a large effort lasting 9 days which means we need at least 135 volunteers starting August 1st through August 9th.

Time: 3:00pm to 10:00pm (open until 11:00pm on Friday and Saturday)

Shifts: 3:00-6:00pm; 6:00-8:00pm; 8:00-10:00pm (August 1-2 and August 8-9 Friday/Saturday last shift of the day is 8:00-11:00pm)

Materials provided: gloves, wagons and plastic bags.

We will need your name as early as possible to provide you with a day pass to the fair on the day of your shift. Please respond to Darcie Warden at 978-9889 or darcie@iagreenstar.org.

Next RTF Meeting – August 13th

The Fairbanks North Star Borough Recycling Task Force will begin meeting every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month, from 4:30 to 6:30 PM in the FNSB Assembly Chambers.

However, the next meeting originally scheduled for July 23rd has been CANCELLED.

The next FNSB Recycling Task Force Meeting will be:

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 4:30PM to 6:30 PM
Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly Chambers

RTF Meeting Minutes – July 9th

The meeting minutes from the last Recycling Task Force meeting are now available.

Recycling Task Force Meeting
Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 4:30-6:30 PM
FNSB Assembly Chambers

Click here to view the document:

RTF Meeting Minutes – 7/9/08

These minutes are also listed under the “Documents” section in the right sidebar.

RTF Meeting Minutes – June 4th

The meeting minutes from the last Recycling Task Force meeting are now available.

Recycling Task Force Meeting
Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 4:30-6:30 PM
FNSB Assembly Chambers

Click here to view the document:

RTF Meeting Minutes – 6/4/08

These minutes are also listed under the “Documents” section in the right sidebar.

RTF Meeting Agenda – July 9th

The next Fairbanks North Star Borough Recycling Task Force Meeting will be:

Wednesday, July 9, 2008 4:30PM to 6:30 PM
Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly Chambers

Agenda

1) Introductions

2) Approve Minutes of last meeting

3) Reports
     – Mayor’s Waste-to-Energy program update
     – Recycling at Midnight Sun Festival Solstice Celebration
     – Large Retail Store Recycling
     – Paper baler at UAF

4) New Business
     – Recommendations from a Recycling Task Force Member

5) Future Events
     – Golden Days Parade Recycling opportunity?
     – Habitat for Humanity recycled building materials yard sale

6) Set date and place for next RTF meeting
     – Suggest being consistent such as second and fourth Wed of the month
          – This would make the next meeting on July 23
     – We should also be consistent with location unless FNSB Chambers unavailable

7) Adjourn

Recommendations from an RTF Member

FIRST DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RECYCLING TASK FORCE WORK PRODUCT, R.T.F./F.N.S.B.
PREPARED BY SCOTT TRAFFORD CALDER, JUNE 17TH, 2008

Priorities:

1) Do no harm to liberty, property and economic interests of citizens.

2) Improve ongoing operations. Current service level is very good and could possibly be maintained at reduced cost or higher level of efficiency.

3) Implement recycling through short term achievements and long term planning for more sustainable practices. Begin with adding some containers at transfer sites which will help source separation of the main categories of “waste”, while directing material to identified end users or markets. Attempt to improve user access, safety and convenience, through signage designed to promote traffic flow and greater public interest in cooperative usage of, and interactions within, the transfer sites. Determine future course of actions by committing to build or improve facilities, for reduced costs or higher quality outcomes or both, when and to the extent it is possible.

Taskforce Actions:

1) Improve process.

2) Continue meetings.

3) Develop detailed recommendations, encourage others to provide information, assistance and proposals to partner with F.N.S.B. and other local entities.

Administrative Actions:

1) R.F.P.’s for recycling projects, contracts, etc.—“Free Trash: Come And Get It!”, or the best terms for citizens.

2) Continue doing GREAT JOB of maintaining transfer sites and cleaning up after messy people and everyone else.

3) Begin signage and public information efforts at transfer sites.

4) Add and/or rearrange some different containers for sorting of specific materials that are marketable or desired by others for use.

5) Formulate strategies for future landfill conversion, upgrading, mining, monitoring and mitigation.

Assembly Actions:

1) Deliberate publicly the wisdom and effectiveness of proposals to institute, improve or change, recycling efforts in the F.N.S.B., including infrastructure development, staffing and public/private partnerships.

2) Amend F.N.S.B. Code to be “recycling friendly”—recognizing that having collections of precious resources, artifacts, spare parts and other materials on hand on one’s own property should be just fine.

3) Appropriate funds to F.N.S.B. facilities and operations which will be likely to enhance capabilities of the public entity to reduce costs and increase quality of outputs of solid waste management systems locally.