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Eight Southeast Alaska communities will resume scrap metal recycling as early as this April. The Southeast Alaska Regional Solid Waste Authority is working with Waste Management, a large garbage removal and recycling business. The authority includes Petersburg, Wrangell, Craig, Klawock, Thorne Bay, Kasaan, Hydaburg and Coffman Cove. Petersburg Public Works Director Karl Hagerman said old…

China is limiting the type and quality of recyclable materials it will import. That could affect Alaska, since most of our recycling ends up there.

In Ketchikan, people can come up to the landfill and take what they want, which saves the city time, space and money.