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Kenai Peninsula Borough: baler failure at Central Peninsula Landfill halts bulky recycling; borough weighing interim fixes
Summary
A decades-old baler at the Central Peninsula Landfill failed, disrupting bulky recycling and prompting borough leaders to evaluate interim and long-term changes to recycling and solid-waste handling.
The mayor of the Kenai Peninsula Borough reported that a 33-year-old baler at the Central Peninsula Landfill experienced a catastrophic mechanical failure, halting the facility’s ability to compact bulky recyclable material.
The mayor said the baler was designed to compact all landfill trash but had been repurposed in recent years for recycling only. “We have a 33 year old baler that was designed for baling all of the trash at the Central Peninsula Landfill,” the mayor said. “It sheared all those bolts, bent. I think it’s 12 inch piping…so we’re very lucky that no one was injured.”
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