Entries categorized as ‘Recycle’
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.
Categories: Recycle
The next Recycling Task Force meeting will be:
Wednesday, April 23rd, 5:00-6:30pm at the UAF Wood Center Ballroom
Agenda: Reviewing the community survey up for approval; Seek input from community
Following the meeting at 6:30pm, Mike Musick will be give a presentation on Sweden’s sustainability efforts and the book The Natural Step for Communities
From noon to 4pm earlier that day there will be a recycled art workshop to prepare for the Recycled Art Contest during the Earth Day Fair (Saturday, April 27th), and rehearsals for the Dumpster Diving Fashion Show which is also happening at the Fair.
Categories: Recycle · Task Force Meeting Announcement
Categories: News · Recycle
Eli Sonafrank has some information to share about an example of niche recycling which they are doing at UAF – bike rebuilding. As featured on the front page of the Sunday paper recently, the UAF Sustainable Campus Task Force recently started a Campus Community Bike Program. This program takes donated bikes – often found at the transfer sites by industrious dumpster divers – and fixes or scavenges them into a working bike fleet for use on campus.
The front page with the story can read be read on the web:
http://www.newsminer.com/news/2008/apr/13/bike-enthusiasts-share-passion-peddling-larger-goa/
SCTF will be having a used bike auction as a fundraiser for the program – at the UAF Earth Day Fair on Saturday, April 26th.
Categories: News · Recycle
Pam Seiser wrote an excellent summary of the recycling topics brought up in our first introductive meeting.
In her summary, you will find information on the two major interests posed by the group:
- What should happen once materials reach the transfer stations
- Preventing reusable materials from being placed in FBSB Landfills
View Pam’s report here.
Thanks Pam!
Categories: Recycle
Tagged: landfill, prevention, Recycle, reuse
