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Solid Waste Solutions in Rural Alaska::

These pages seek to provide examples from rural Alaska that will allow villages to take the relevant issues and make local decisions of how best to allot their public health and solid waste management resources and which waste type components are best addressed short-term and which waste type components are best addressed long-term. Community residents can be educated by well-informed staff that their participation in backhaul is highly desirable (and often leads to participation in other useful activities), but carrying out individual sound practices daily with their waste disposal, such as care in access maintenance, minimizing the affects of erosion and flooding, ceasing in-town barrel burning, keeping away from the dump site during burn hours if burning occurs, and reducing purchase and generation of toxic materials, produces a much more substantial and lasting impact on health and environmental risk reduction.

Introduction and Acknowledgements. Upgrading and Providing Frequent Maintenance to Your Landfill Access and a success story from Koyukuk. Minimizing the Affects of Erosion and Flooding and success stories from Nightmute and Kwigillingok. Using Best Management Practices for Burning and success stories from Kiana and the City of Sand Point. Reducing Purchase and Generation of Toxic Materials and a success story from Selawik. Staging Materials for Reuse in the Community or Backhaul and success stories from the villages in Northwest Alaska, Venetie, Council of Athabascan Governments, and Newtok. Participating in Community Education and Outreach Efforts and success stories from Newtok and Fort Yukon.

Additional Success Stories from Rural Alaska:

Kotlik Yupiit of Andreafski Tribal Government Skagway Traditional Council Nelson Island Consortium Native Village of Tununak Chefornak Chefornak Compost Toilet Project Newtok	Akiachak Native Community Village of Atmautluak Newhalen Native Village Kivalina IRA Council Selawik IRA Council Total Reclaim, Inc. Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government Remediation Project Agdaagux Tribe of King Cove Environmental Department