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Residents press Assembly on recycling disruptions after borough baler outage; mayor pledges fixes
Summary
Public commenters representing Regroup and other community volunteers told the assembly that recent equipment failures and program changes led to recycling material being buried. The mayor said the administration will work with community groups to restore recycling services and install new equipment.
Several members of the public told the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly Sept. 2 that disruptions in the borough’s recycling operations have resulted in diverted or buried recyclable materials and that community volunteer groups have been relied on to sustain services.
Shan Wallace, speaking for Regroup (a community recycling nonprofit that formed in 1989), said the borough had recruited Regroup in 2007 to support electronics recycling and that the community has diverted roughly 120 tons of electronics from landfill since that time. Wallace told the assembly the borough’s baler stopped operating in December/February 2024 and that the interruption caused a backlog and, according to Wallace, some recyclable material was buried…
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