Promoting reduction, reuse, and recycling of waste in the community. 

Recycling News:

• Plan for the Hazardous Waste Disposal Days at the local Bailing Facility

• L Homer Bailing Facility

• Homer's annual Electronics Recycling Day has a huge impact.  Check out this video to learn more.

• Recycle your used plastic yogurt containers at the Homer Food Pantry.  They can use then use them for food distribution.  Stop by the Methodist Church on Mondays or call 235-1968.

• We have two second-hand locations where you can donate your unwanted goods; the Salvation Army Store (on Pioneer across from Captains Coffee) and Pick & Pay (open Saturdays from 10-2 by the Catholic Church).  Also consider the consignment stores; The Fringe, (down on Bunnell Street below the Art Gallery, call before you bring stuff in 235-4999) and Consignment World (next to the Bidarka Inn, 435-0441)  At the Fringe you can choose to get some cash for your items or designate a non-profit to which you would like your share to go.  

• Check out the Anchorage A to Z: Guide to Zero Waste for Winter and for Spring/Summer.

• Here are some tips on how to recycle right.

• Have stuff you don't want but aren't bad enough to throw away?  Check out the Alaska Materials Exchange

• There are quite a few recycling places in Anchorage, feel free to check out the options at Total Reclaim, ALPAR, Alaska Metal Recycling and others.

 

Other Resources

• Learn more about how to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

• But mostly just Reduce.

• How about using your wastes for Compost

• Composting Toilets

• Some great food for thought about how much we consume and the effects on our economy, ecology, and society as a whole:  The Story of Stuff

Volunteers at the Electronics Recycling event in April 

Thanks to the Ecological  Team,  the dump now takes tin cans for recycling.  Also take your florescent light bulbs there for proper disposal.

April Electronics Recycling Save up those electronics you want to get rid of so they will be properly disposed of on April 24th 10m to 3pm at Spenards.

Next Hazardous Waste Disposal Day At the dump is May 1st.

HOMER FACT:

Homer is filling up its landfill.  Within the next couple of years we will have the added expense of trucking our waste up to Soldotna.  We need to look at the amount of garbage produced on the Peninsula and become aware of how much we throw out.  We need to change some of our habits of buying and using things.

Environmentally-aware consumers are producing less waste by practicing the “3 Rs:” Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. They are buying products that are less toxic and contain less packaging, using reusable containers and other reusable items, maintaining and repairing products, participating in recycling programs, and buying products made from recycled materials.

To contact us:

You can drop us a letter at:

Sustainable Homer, PO Box 1801, Homer, AK  99603

Phone: 907-235-6953

E-mail: info@sustainablehomer.org