Each future issue of Alaska Wellness will
include a Go Green tip. You will be amazed what simple things can be
done to help save our planet. Please share these ideas with friends
and family. Together, we can make a difference!
If you are not already recycling your mixed
paper, newspapers, aluminum cans (liquid), tin cans (food), cardboard,
clean plastic bags, tin foil or plastic bottles, these items can be
picked up weekly - if you live in the Anchorage bowl. Note: it is now
okay to keep the lids on #1 PETE and #2 HDPE plastic bottles. However,
no food containers are recyclable in Alaska, even if marked #1.
The Anchorage Recycling Center on Rosewood and
Dowling (between the New and Old Seward Highways just behind NAPA
Auto) will also accept recycled items as listed above, day or night.
For those living in the Mat Su area, see http://www.valleyrecycling.org/
to learn about recycling in the Valley.
Why should we go to this effort?
Recycling helps prevent the necessity for more raw materials to be
used. Additionally it keeps these items out of landfills. The less
landfills, the more space we can use for parks or other places of
beauty.
Many of these ideas come from The Green Book,
The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet, One Simple Step at a Time, by
Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen.
Denise
Knapp, Certified Health and Life Coach, is a resident of Anchorage
who has been recycling for 33 years and advertising in Alaska Wellness
for 10 years. Contact: (907) 345-0733.
