Alaska Star - Bear-resistant trash cans available 07/09/09

Story Last modified at 12:05 p.m. on Thursday, July 9, 2009

Bear-resistant trash cans available

The group Safe Neighborhoods, Wild Bears is using a $60,000 grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to replace 150 regular trash cans with bear-resistant ones for Alaska Waste customers in parts of Eagle River, Muldoon and the Anchorage Hillside.

The Bear-resistant trash cans feature a reinforced lid and security bar.

To learn more about the bear-resistant cans call Alaska Waste at 563-3717.

This article published in The Alaska Star on Thursday, July 9, 2009.