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With the holidays coming up people tend to have more ‘stuff’ in the house. Thinks like cardboard boxes and shipping materials from delivered gifts, wrapping paper and those funky old Christmas lights that don’t work anymore. Before you haul it all out to the trash, which just goes to straight to the land fill, take a moment to rethink your …

Bales of shredded paper ready for shipment to Seattle processors. Photo courtesy of Threshold Recycling Jennifer Canfield/KMXT With Kodiak Island Borough taxpayers bracing to shell out nearly $11 million dollars for the landfill expansion, recycling is ready to take center stage. Ken Reinke is the executive director of Threshold Recycling. He runs a small facility on Von Scheele Way where …