[Juneau airport and public transit drop mask requirement]<\/ins><\/a><\/p>\nTo be eligible for the program, the vehicle must meet several requirements, according to the Recycleworks page.<\/p>\n
— Vehicles must be located on the property of the individual registering<\/p>\n
— Vehicles must be easily accessible from public roads<\/p>\n
— Vehicles must be free of all garbage and loose car parts<\/p>\n
— Vehicles must have been registered in Juneau at one time<\/p>\n
— Vehicles must have rolling wheels and inflated tires and be able to be towed<\/p>\n
These requirements are in place to make it economical for Skookum to recycle the vehicle, Ashton said.<\/p>\n
“If the vehicle was at one point registered in Juneau and it falls within our means, it’s a passenger, non-commercial vehicle, we’ll cover it,” Ashton said. “Clean it out so they don’t have to. They process the hazardous materials.”<\/p>\n
The program exists to fill a gap that would regularly be filled by private companies in places on the road network, Ashton said, but that Juneau’s isolation makes non-viable.<\/p>\n
“If we were on the road system or anywhere else, private industry would absolutely take care of it,” Ashton said. “If we were anywhere else, it would be a lot easier. You go to them and they might even give you money for it. But once you add the shipping, forget about it.”<\/p>\n
While the program exists year-round, periodic round-ups gives the city a good tool to assess the need for junk car disposal in the community, Ashton said.<\/p>\n
“For us, it’s also a good metric. We’re going to get a list of the people that want to do it,” Ashton said. “It’s a really good one off to get the metrics and see how to better adjust the program to serve the needs of the community.”<\/p>\n
• Contact reporter Michael S. Lockett at (757) 621-1197 or mlockett@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All towing and recycling fees will be waved for those who meet the requirements. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":84957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[75,584],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-84956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-local-news","tag-recycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84956"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=84956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}