November Recycling Spotlight: Office Paper
This month’s recyclable material spotlight is sorted office paper! Office paper is a higher value commodity sorted out of our standard mixed paper that we collect. This is because it can be turned into any other color of paper but other colored paper...
Alaska Community Foundation + Green Star Reboot IT Technology Grants = MORE JOY!
Since its inception in 2020, Green Star’s laptop donation program has evolved from a COVID response to school children needing distance learning computers into our Reboot IT Technology Grants. These systems are still available to families with school age children but...
National Recycling Day Tours
National Recycling Day is coming up and we are continuing our tradition of celebrating with Fairbanks North Star Borough by putting on tours of the FNSB Central Recycling Facility! This is our first Saturday tour of the year, making it a great day for folks the...
October Recyclable Material Spotlight: Steel Cans
We just started accepted steel cans at the FNSB Central Recycling Facility this summer! Cans must be rinsed so they are free of food waste and have the labels off of them so that they don’t impact the smelting process. Tin and steel cans are the same, the name...