Big Lake's Mid Valley Recycling has awarded $10,000 in grants as part of a program designed to encourage individuals to think outside of the box in terms of recycling.
separated the program into two categories: one $3,000 prize for youth and a $5,000 one for adults.
Wesley Quimby, a seventh grader on the team, said the group brainstormed the idea during one of their practices. The team sported banana hats while giving their presentation to the program organizers in a science classroom at the middle school on Thursday morning. They intend to use the money to help fund anOn the other side of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough in Palmer, Patrick Simpson was handed his check for winning the adult category for his small operation that turns plastics into formable pieces of lumber.
Simpson operates out of a conex in a commercial park near the Alaska State Fairgrounds. Inside, he uses equipment to grind down types of plastic that many recycle centers don’t take, melt it down, and pour it into a mold resembling lumbered wood where it dries.Another individual toured Simpson’s conex with the program organizers before receiving an additional check for $2,000 from Mid Valley Recycling.
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