“Plastic is a wonderful product because it lasts. It’s also a really horrible product because it lasts,” Haines Friends of Recycling board chair Melissa Aronson said, standing in the operation’s warehouse where recycled materials are compressed into neat packages. In a shipping container outside, more than seven tons of plastic waits to be sent to Seattle for recycling.
HFR has been stockpiling plastic since October 2021, as the market for buying recycled plastic is practically…