Interactive Recycling Guide
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FNSB Central Recycling Facility Weekly Update
CRF Report: 509 FFNSB residents and 40 businesses brought recycling to the FNSB Central Recycling Facility totaling over 15 tons of recycling!
Recyclable Spotlight: Electronics and Batteries
Did you know that you can recycle your old electronics, especially household batteries (no car batteries), computers, gaming systems and laptops at the Central Recycling Facility? Whenever possible our ReUse IT team will refurbish items to sell at our ReUse IT store or give to community members via our ReBoot IT Technology Grants program. Even items too old to be reused will be taken apart for recycling. This keeps your old electronics in circulation, out of your junk drawer, and out of our landfill.
Back to School Sale, Links and reminders
Quick invitation and a few reminders and helpful links…
#FNSBRecycles QR Code Sheet
Can you hang this #FNSBRecycles QR code sheet somewhere for us?
Don’t bury me!
Don’t bury me! #FNSBRecycles – please help keep things which can be recycled from being buried in our Landfill.
Borrow recycling bins
Eligible companies and events can borrow recycling bins from Green Star of Interior Alaska – for FREE! Some terms and conditions apply.
The ugly truth about plastic:
Did you know that half of all of the plastic ever made has been made since the year 2000?
Where to Recycle
Click here to view an interactive map of where to recycle in Fairbanks.
Mixed Paper
Identification: Commonly found in a variety of paper products, mixed paper can be identified by its ability to rip or tear.
Cardboard
Identification: Commonly used to make boxes, corrugated cardboard can be identified by its brown hue and multi-layer corrugation.
Plastics #1 & #2
Identification: Rinsed #1 (PET) bottles including beverage bottles, salad dressing bottles, etc. Rinsed #2 (HDPE) jugs with necks and screw tops including milk and detergent jugs.
Plastic Bags
Identification: Plastic grocery bags are inexpensive bags you may receive at grocery stores, convenience stores, and other retail outlets.
Aluminum Cans
Identification: Commonly used as beverage containers, aluminum cans are identified by their metallic sheen and are not magnetic.
Steel Cans
Identification: Commonly used for food storage, steel cans are identified by their metallic sheen and are magnetic.
Scrap Metal
Identification: Aluminum scrap, brass, copper, stainless steel, radiators, lead, tin, cables, appliances, etc.
Electronics
Identification: Electronics are everywhere – smartphones, televisions, DVD players, computers… anything with a circuit board is an electronic device.
Household Batteries
Identification: Household Batteries include common household batteries of all types, including alkaline, carbon-zinc, lithium, mercury, silver oxide, rechargeable and more.
Vehicle Batteries
Identification: Vehicle Batteries include batteries from cars, trucks, recreational vehicles, ATV’s, motorcycles, and snow machines. The most common are lead-acid batteries, but they include newer technologies such as lithium ion, lithium polymer.
Fluorescent Lights
Identification: Fluorescent light tubes are widely used in homes and businesses. They contain toxins and need to be disposed of properly.
Light Bulbs
Identification: Light Bulbs including compact fluorescent bulbs, LED bulbs, and incandescent bulbs illuminate the world around us but many contain toxins and need to be disposed of properly.
Clothing
Identification: Gently used and clean clothing and shoes
Household Items
Identification: Household items run the range from dishes, to lamps, to toys, to furniture.
Eyeglasses
Identification: Prescription glasses, reading glasses, sunglasses, and children’s glasses with plastic and metal frames.
Paints, Oils, & Chemicals
Identification: Paints, oils and other chemicals are considered household hazardous waste. They may be toxic and should not be put in regular trash.