Recyclables
What and where you can recycle in AnchorageResources for other Alaska regions
Aluminum cans
Drop-off sites are located throughout Anchorage. (map)
Newspapers
Drop-off sites are located throughout Anchorage. (map)
Glass
Drop off only at RockTenn’s Anchorage Recycling Center 24/7. All colors bottles and Jars, no lids or caps, NO ceramics, porcelain or thermal glass.
Cardboard
(Corrugated only) Drop-off at RockTenn’s Anchorage Recycling Center and Anchorage Regional Landfill (please flatten!).
Mixed paper
Junk Mail, cereal boxes, egg cartons, magazines/catalogs, phonebooks. (No hardbound books or metal bindings.) Drop at RockTenn’s Anchorage Recycling Center and Anchorage Regional landfill.
Office paper
High quality white and colored. Drop-off at RockTenn’s Anchorage Recycling Center.
Mixed paper
Junk Mail, cereal boxes, egg cartons, magazines/catalogs, phonebooks. (No hardbound books or metal bindings.) Drop at RockTenn’s Anchorage Recycling Center and Anchorage Regional landfill.
Scrap metal
Various types – call RockTenn’s Anchorage Recycling Center (562-2267) or Alaska Metal & Recycling (349-4833) for info.
Steel cans
No aerosol or paint cans. Drop-off at RockTenn’s Anchorage Recycling Center.
Building Materials / Construction & Demolition Debris
Donate or buy used and new building materials at Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore (743-8060).
Central Recycling Services call 748-7400.
Yard waste
American Landscaping, leaves and grass only, call for information: 563-3804; Anchorage Woodlot, clean, natural wood only – branches and tree segments. Please remember to cover your load.
Plastic bottles
#1 PETE soda & water bottles — no caps! Drop-off at RockTenn’s Anchorage Recycling Center.
Plastic jugs
#2 HDPE plastic milk & detergent jugs — no caps! Drop-off at RockTenn’s Anchorage Recycling Center.
Plastic bags
Stretchy plastic film like grocery bags, drycleaner bags, bubble wrap, shrink wrap. No food contaminated film please. Drop off at RockTenn’s Anchorage Recycling Center. Also at CARRS/Safeway, Walmart, Target, Lowes, and Fred Meyer Stores in the entryway bins (bags only).
Electronics
Computers, TV’s, office electronics, cell phones, fluorescent bulbs. Drop off info: TOTAL RECLAIM, 12101 Industry Way, Unit C4 (561-0544).
Regional Resources
Glennallen/Copper Valley: ROAR – Recycling Our Areas’s Resources
MatSu Valley/Palmer/Wasilla: VCRS – Valley Community for Recycling Solutions Recycling Center
Kenai Peninsula Kenai Peninsula Borough Solid Waste Department, Recycling drop off in most communities
Fairbanks: Fairbanks Rescue Mission Recycling Center, 907-452-5343
Kodiak: Threshold Recycling
Juneau: City and Borough Public Works / Recycling Center
Haines: Friends of Recycling
Ketchikan: City of Ketchikan Solid Waste
Sitka: City and Borough of Sitka
Drop-off Locations in Anchorage
RockTenn’s Anchorage Recycling Center (a.k.a. Anchorage Recycling Center) is a 24 hour drop-off site for all accepted materials. Aluminum cans purchased only during business hours 9 to 4pm.
6161 Rosewood (Between Old and New Seward off Dowling Rd, behind the NAPA Store.) Call 562-2267.
Anchorage Regional Landfill (Hiland Dr.) Drop off for Cardboard, Mixed Paper, Newspaper, Aluminum Cans, Plastics #1 Bottles and Plastics #2 bottles and jugs only. Plastics must have a neck and screw top.
Total Reclaim: Electronics, CFL’s, fluorescent lamps, batteries — website
Central Recycling Services: Construction and demolition debris — website
Commingled Curbside Recycling in Anchorage
Alaska Waste — see website
Muni of Anchorage Solid Waste Services — see website
