S.E.A.L.

    The Municipality of Skagway has had an active solid waste planning program dating back to 1988 when its first solid waste plan was developed. Since then many residents and businesses have been recycling, often going to considerable lengths to transport their recyclables more than 100 miles to Whitehorse.

Stop by Skagway Swap and help close the loop! Have some stuff that needs a new home? Or maybe you need something specific that you can't find anywhere else? Skagway Swap can even be used as an information swap, or as a place to ask to borrow items you might only need temporarily. The swap gets anywhere from 20-50 posts per day. An exact number of items exchanged and the amount of carbon/fuel that has been saved by items getting reused, repurposed and not incinerated is impressive. The administrators Brittney Thomas, Willeke Burnham, and Kim Burnham have created and maintain a community service that has grown to become a place to exchange not only goods, but community information and news.

The Skagway Borough Assembly on April 4 unanimously adopted a solid waste and recycling management plan that will eventually create a recycling center, a compost center and a solid waste transfer facility while planning for the eventual closure of the incinerator. SCS Engineers, the company contracted to consult on Skagway’s solid waste program, determined that recycling, composting and shipping garbage out of Skagway by water would be cheaper than burning garbage in the incinerator. According to the resolution, SCS Engineers determined that the municipality pays an average of $474.07 per ton of garbage burned in the incinerator where the cost to ship garbage out would be $158 per ton.

Public Notice on Waste Disposal and Recycling