Company provides new Anchorage option to recycle more types of plastic

Lisa Simpson and Cody Vaught beryllium successful beforehand of nan caller drop-off location for Alaska Plastics Recovery connected June 29, 2024. (Courtesy Patrick Simpson)

Alaskans will person a caller spot to recycle much types of plastics successful Anchorage starting Saturday. Alaska Plastic Recovery is opening a drop-off location successful Midtown which provides a unsocial twist connected recycling: The institution uses nan worldly to make Plastic Lumber, which tin beryllium utilized successful spot of wood.

“Any benignant of point you tin usage lumber for, you tin usage this for,” said Marketing and Sales Director Rachell Murphy. “It’s nan aforesaid dimensions, you tin trim it up.”

The caller drop-off location will beryllium unfastened each Saturday from noon to 3:30 p.m. astatine 1310 E. 56th Ave. and will let Anchorage residents to recycle much types of integrative for free. Alaska Plastic Recovery tin recycle type 4 and 5 plastics, which nan Municipality of Anchorage does not accept. Type 4 includes astir integrative shopping bags, squeezable bottles, integrative wraps and zip-close bags, and type 5 includes things for illustration yogurt containers and disposable cups and plates. Alaska Plastic Recovery besides takes types 1 and 2.

“I deliberation it helps to person a spot wherever you tin really recycle those things,” Murphy said. “The municipality and Solid Waste Services has been really awesome astatine moving pinch america because they’d alternatively spot this integrative recycled than successful their landfill.”

Alaska Plastic Recovery started erstwhile laminitis Patrick Simpson had nan thought to do thing pinch plastics polluting nan water aft they were collected from marine debris clean-up programs. The caller drop-off location will let nan institution to usage much post-consumer discarded successful summation to plastics recovered successful nan ocean.

The recycled integrative lumber has been utilized to build decks, picnic benches, and plot beds. The institution has moreover worked pinch the Homer Trails Alliance to usage nan lumber for way maintenance. 

Alaska Plastic Recovery’s integrative lumber is often utilized to make picnic benches and different outdoor infrastructure since, dissimilar wood, it does not rot from rainfall aliases snow. (Courtesy Jerry Miller)

“We person really enjoyed moving pinch nan communities,” Murphy said. “I mean, there’s truthful overmuch liking successful wanting to do thing that we tin each really usage and not extremity up conscionable throwing our integrative away.”

Murphy says she is looking guardant to having unfastened hours each Saturday wherever  Alaska Plastic Recovery unit will beryllium capable to interact pinch nan community.

“We’ve really gotten a batch of interest,” Murphy said. “People person asked and asked so that I cognize location person been group waiting for this.”

In summation to  Alaska Plastic Recovery’s drop-off hours, group tin besides driblet disconnected plastics for nan institution during the Solid Waste Services’ hours for nan location each Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.