Yellow bags with trash on the side of the road after the snow melts has become customary on the Kenai. Alaska Waste changed things up last year and this year by no longer being able to pick-up bags left on the side of the road, due to the restrictions of new equipment. In the city of Kenai, May 18 – 24 will allow a window for residents to clean up their neighborhoods and leave bags on the side of the road to be picked-up, free of charge.
The city plans to have some bags available for residents starting next week, but there is a shortage, so they welcome using your own bags to participate in this Virtual Hands-On Cleanup Kenai event.
Johna Beech, Kenai Chamber of Commerce President: “Kenai Parks and Recreation, along with the City of Kenai, is partnering with Alaska Waste to do a Virtual Hands-On Cleanup Kenai event. It’s a little bit different this year. We do have a bag shortage. There will be bags dropped off, I believe next week, and so then at that point we’ll figure out how to distribute them to the community. If you choose to go ahead and partake in this cleanup week, pop over to Kenai Parks and Recrecation’s Facebook page – they have an event on it.”
She clarifies that this is only within the city-limits of Kenai and offers more details about Alaska Waste stepping up even more that weekend: “Disclaimer: this is within the city limits of Kenai. Kenai Parks and Recreation will be picking up any bags left on the side of the road, and that’s just the week of May 18 – 24. On Saturday and Sunday, May 23 and 24, Alaska Waste will be providing a rolloff container for people to put collection or trash items in also. Please don’t pick up sharps; you can call Kenai Parks and Recreation or the Kenai Police Department if you find any sharps.”
Via their Facebook page, Kenai’s Department of Parks and Recreation has provided key hot-spots in the town that may need more care than others. Click here for a Google Earth map of the city limits of Kenai, to help find some of the following hot-spots to plot your clean-up strategy:
- Behind and around any grocery store or fast food establishment;
- The Kenai Bluff Overlook (235 Spur View Dr.);
- Anywhere along the Kenai Spur Highway;
- Daubenspeck Park (400 Marathon Rd);
- The Kenai North Beach (600 S Spruce St.);
- Behind Job Service;
- Bernie Huss Trail & Disc Golf Course (120 Main St. Loop);
- Millennium Square (415 Frontage Rd);
- Wildflower Field (100095 Kenai Spur Hwy)
