Rachel Blakeslee
184:02 - 184:51
"ADEC does state that Alaska has no landfills permitted to accept regulated hazardous waste, but there are potentially other options... any materials with concentrations of, for example, 1 to 10 parts per million of PCBs can be left in place or used as backfill."
“ADEC does state that Alaska has no landfills permitted to accept regulated hazardous waste, but there are potentially other options... any materials with concentrations of, for example, 1 to 10 parts per million of PCBs can be left in place or used as backfill.”
- Speaker
- Rachel Blakeslee
- Timestamp
- 184:02 – 184:51
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- August 18, 2026
From the transcript
With the ADEX standard, the Alaska Division of Environmental Conservation, ADEX, I know that the standard says that no PCBs can be disposed of in Alaska, or that's what the memo says. Correct. But the ADEX does state— well, I guess to me that's a broader interpretation of what— like, it— the representation of the details are a little bit more specific. So ADEC does state that Alaska has no landfills permitted to accept regulated hazardous waste, but there are potentially other options. For example, and that's where the parts per million that I'm asking about comes into play, because according to ADEC, any materials with concentrations of, for example, 1 to 10 parts per million of PCBs can be left in place or used as backfill.
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