Bear Information

Alaska Waste is continuing to support our partnership with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to help limit the occurrences of bears in trash.  For areas that Fish and Game have identified as “high risk” Alaska Waste has delayed our refuse start time until 8:00 a.m. This allows ample time in the morning to set out trash.  For all customers who are not in these bear areas please continue to set your trash out by 6:00 a.m.  Do not leave garbage out overnight.  For more information regarding bear activity visit the Alaska Department of Fish and Game web site  or call (907) 267-2137.

Bear resistant tipper carts are available from Alaska Waste. Service for these containers is $24 per month (only $3.00 more than standard garbage service).  Please call customer service at 563-3717 for more information.

Safe Neighborhoods, Wild Bears

Cooperators include:

  • Alaska Waste
  • Alaska Center for the Environment
  • Defenders of Wildlife
  • Audubon Alaska
  • Alaska Department of Fish and Game,
  • Municipality of Anchorage and the Anchorage Bear Committee. 
  • Funding provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Municipality of Anchorage.

 

2009 Commercial Bear-Lid Program

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has identified three neighborhoods with frequent bear and trash encounters; one in Muldoon, Lake Otis and Eagle River.  Through a generous grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Municipality of Anchorage, we are able to offer commercial dumpster customers in these project areas a free upgrade to the bear-resistant lid for three years.  Customers that qualify for the program were sent a letter April 1, 2009.

Garbage that is not properly secured is a danger to our community and harmful to the bears.  Alaska Waste has developed a bear-resistant lid that is durable enough to keep bears out, but light enough to be lifted by residents, tenants, or staff.   

The program begins May 1, 2009 and will continue until May 1, 2012. We will retrofit 150 dumpsters in the project areas.  Lids will be installed on a first-come, first serve basis.

For more information regarding the Safe Neighborhoods, Wild Bears program contact Elizabeth Manning with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game at 267-2168 or elizabeth.manning@alaska.gov.

Bear resistant cans
Bear resistant cans are available from Alaska Waste. Please call customer service at 563-3717.
Maps of high risk bear areas


ANCHORAGE OVERVIEW

EAGLE RIVER/CHUGIAK OVERVIEW