Denali National Park Tackles Trash With Zero-Landfill Initiative

Aug 14, 2018 12:05 PM ET
One of Denali National Park’s new triple-bin Bear Save recycling containers. (Katherine Belcher/NPS)

As published on the Anchorage Daily News website

by Laurel Andrews

A record number of visitors traveled to Interior Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve last year, but they left behind less trash than a few years before.

A push to send less waste to the local landfill is working, officials say. Since 2016, Denali National Park has partnered with Subaru in a "zero-landfill" initiative aimed at turning trash into recycling.

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