Sustainable North

From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer June 11, 2008.

Talk of management at the reuse pads and at the larger system of 14 garbage transfer sites boiled briefly this winter when a now-retired assemblyman unsuccessfully looked to reform the sites by banning dumpster diving. A contracted garbage hauler takes care of public trash bins at the 14 sites, but the responsibility of regularly cleaning the five reuse pads falls to government work crews…

“There is an awareness that something needs to be done” to better manage the free-for-all reuse areas, she said. “And I think that people have simply been waiting for something to happen.”

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