COVID-19 Laptop Project Update
Green Star is continuing our efforts to help close the technology gap in Fairbanks by providing refurbished laptops to folks in need to use for distance learning, remote work, and connecting with loved ones in quarantine. Over the past month, we’ve contacted everyone who had submitted a request for a laptop. We also began reaching out to local community organizations and groups to help connect us with more people who are in need of assistance. If you’d like to support this project, we are currently seeking donations of specific supplies needed for this ongoing laptop donation program.
Rural Backhaul Highlight: Ruby Marine
One of Green Star’s four programs is Village Backhaul. Through it, we subsidize remote Interior communities’ recycling efforts and haul out their electronic waste for recycling. We have worked with 16 different Interior villages off the road system since the program started, pulling out 56,000 pounds of potentially toxic material since 2011. A vast majority of that material’s first transport leg is on a Ruby Marine barge.
Continuing to Reduce Single-Use Plastic: A Reflection from ‘The Story of Plastic’
The Story of Plastic offers a harsh reality about the single-use plastic waste crisis that many of us in Alaska are able to ignore easily because we are far removed from the end of the plastic supply chain.
Clean Up Day 2020 Results
Clean Up Day 2020 was a huge success, with over 1000 volunteers picking up 10+ tons of trash over the weeklong event. Green Star led the organizing effort, working with organizations from across town to pull off the event safely in the midst of COVID-19.
The Central Recycling Facility is OPEN!
The Central Recycling Facility is open for residential recycling drop-off with COVID-19 preventative measures in place.