Southeast communities talk trash, looking to save money

It doesn’t matter the value of what people toss in the trash, it’s all expensive to ship out of town to a landfill.

The borough sends out about 60 to 65 40-foot-long containers filled with trash every year, at a cost budgeted for this year at $360,000. That’s up from $239,000 just three years ago.

Wrangell is not alone in paying increasingly higher costs for hauling and dumping trash at an approved landfill in eastern Washington state. The trash travels by barge and then rail to the landfill. Petersburg has been hit with similar price increases, and both the city and the borough in Ketchikan h...

 

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