Recycling Alaska
Being green is the new in and recycling effectively is part of your home maintenance. Recycling is also important when a contractor or you are working on home improvement, additions, and house projects because the disposal of the remodels should be recycled. Here you will find the best Home Services in Alaska to choose from for you green remodeling experience.
Alaska Environmental Lobby (907) 463-3366
419 6th St Juneau, AK
Waste Management (907) 780-7801
5600 Tonsgard Ct Juneau, AK
Alaska Metal Recycling A Schnitzer Company (907) 349-4833
9705 King St Anchorage, AK
Southeast Antifreeze Recycling & Contracting (907) 790-4305
2531 Barrett Ave Juneau, AK
Total Reclaim (907) 561-0544
12101 Industry Way Anchorage, AK
Dunn Environmental Services (907) 463-3243
19890 Cohen Dr Juneau, AK
Smurfit Stone Recycling Company (907) 562-2267
1813 E 1st Ave Anchorage, AK
Alaska Pacific Environmental Service (907) 780-7800
5211 Stark St Juneau, AK
C I Contractors Inc (907) 561-8807
311 N Sitka St Anchorage, AK
Aei Pacific Inc (907) 334-3185
1711 E 82nd Ave Anchorage, AK
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Why Recycle?
1. Recycling conserves our valuable natural resources.
2. Recycling saves energy.
3. Recycling saves clean air and clean water.
4. Recycling saves landfill space.
Each ton of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4,000 kilowatts of energy and 7,000 gallons of water!
Making recycled paper instead of new paper uses 64 percent less energy and uses 58 percent less water.
One tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year. More than 1/3 of all fiber used to make paper comes from recycled paper. Only 1 percent of the world's water supply is usable; 97 percent is in the ocean and 2 percent is frozen. It takes a 15-year-old tree to produce 700 grocery bags.
Where does the trash go? When you throw something "away", it doesn't go away! Trash is either burned, buried, recycled or dumped into rivers and oceans.
Disposable diapers last centuries in landfills. An average baby will go through 8,000 of them!
Recycling a stack of newspapers just 3 feet high can save one tree.
Waste paper is collected, sorted, baled and transported to a paper recycling plant. You can help by sorting paper and keeping it dry and out of the sun (water and sunlight make it harder to remove ink).
At the paper factory, used paper is mixed with water in a huge blender called a "hydrapulper," which mixes the paper with water, pulling inks away from the paper fibers and separating the fibers themselves. De-inking chemicals are sometimes also added.
The pulp mixture passes through several different-sized screens, which separate the paper fibers from paper clips, staples and other contaminants.
In most cases, the clean pulp is then mixed with some new wood pulp to make the recycled paper stronger. Recycled paper fibers get shorter the more often they are recycled. Most fibers can be recycled! The clean pulp is pressed into sheets, dried, finished and placed onto rolls.
Old newspapers can become new newspapers.
Old corrugated boxes can become new corrugated boxes.
Old printing and writing paper can become new printing and writing paper, wrapping paper, and paper used for magazines, books and brochures.
Old scrap paper of all kinds can be used to make new paper towels and tissues, egg cartons, fruit trays and flower pots.
Old grocery bags can become new mail wrappings for magazines and catalogs, new dog food bags as well as new grocery bags.
Old toy boxes or shoe boxes can become new cereal and soap boxes, soft drink cartons and pizza boxes.
Dunn Environmental Services
(907) 463-3243
19890 Cohen Dr Juneau, AK
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