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Old televisions await packing at Wrangell Cooperative Association's e-waste collection event, March 2021.(Photo courtesy of Kim Wickman / Wrangell Cooperative Association Waste from old laptops, televisions and other electronics can and should be recycled. But in an area like Southeast Alaska, any shipment of heavy old tech costs more than many individuals or companies can afford. Kim Wickman works for the Wrangell Cooperative Association, a federally recognized Tribe. She says  piles of old electronics led to some questionable behavior. “In the past, we’ve seen a lot of computers, compu...

Posted by Sage Smiley | Jan 27, 2021 Influent pipes at Wrangell’s water plant. (Sage Smiley / KSTK) . Read part two here . Read part four here. In the first installments of KSTK’s series on Wrangell’s Water Woes, we looked at how ageing reservoirs and a plant ill-suited to treat the city’s source water contribute to water flow issues in town. But problems at the plant have also led to Wrangell’s water to at times fail to meet state water quality standards.  In this third part of the series, KSTK takes a look at one of the reasons why: disinfection byproducts that end up in the cit...