Sept. 16, 2016
To the editor: Don’t throw it away; how admirable and worthwhile. Denali National Park’s volunteers are taking on a new and long-needed zero-waste initiative for visitors to Denali National Park; they are even giving each participant a nice prize for helping get it going. While in the park (or anywhere, really), sort your trash from all that snacking and picnic fun between items that can be recycled and actual waste. Volunteers are collecting aluminum cans, plastic drink bottles, glass containers and mixed paper. Feel free to additionally save tin cans for recycling in Fairbanks or Anchorage; maybe even your fruit and sandwich vegetable scraps for composting.
This is a great idea, a wonderful volunteer effort and inspiring participation by park visitors. Think how much that could save us in trash collection personnel, trash bags, landfill space and money.