Solid Waste Solutions in Rural Alaska::
Additional Success Stories from Rural Alaska:

Newtok

Contact:
   Margaret Nickerson
   907/237-2314
   dinning69@yahoo.com

Newtok's access to their old honeybucket lagoon was cut off and there was no place for the community to dump waste but in the river in town. With just $30,000 from BIA, they invented the individual honeybucket vacuum to reduce exposure to germs from leaking and overflowing honeybuckets hauled through town, and also creating a separate honeybucket bunker apart from town.

Newtok was the initiator of the Nelson Island Consortium and is heavily involved in educating its community about contaminants that can come from wastes, and in working with the school to ban the use of Styrofoam. Its staff, consisting of IGAP and Nelson Island representatives, is very helpful to other villages and constantly seeking out ways to improve their environment with very limited resources.