BACKHAUL SUMMIT

2012KAWERAK BACKHAUL

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TheBering Strait

Region

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Kawerak is our regional non-profit corporation, incorporated under State Law in 1973, to provide services

throughout the Bering Strait Region.

Kawerak received an EPA IGAP consortia grant in 2010to help coordinate regional backhaul & recycling issues.

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We collect!

we stage!

…and we backhaul!

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do community education!

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e-waste, batteries,scrap metal, white goods,

fluorescents, ballasts,Freon, aluminum…

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To make that happen we partner with

local, regional and statewide entities.

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A regional airlines backhauls our materials from the villages to Nome, non-revenue & space available.

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From Nome we fly the materials to Anchorage (year round) or we wait for summer

and barge them to Seattle.

REGI

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Tapped into the various statewide RESOURCESavailable for environmental programs

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Sought a partnership with the City of Nome to help improve their

Recycle CenterBEFORE AFTER

How can YOU build a regional

backhaul program?

(glad you asked!)

Identify Transportation CompaniesRE

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• Airlines • Rail companies• Barge lines• Road system• Ferry• Other?

What works

best for you?

What are your options?

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S Identify Recycling Companies• What types of materials are

you working with?

Metals, e-waste, paper, plastics, lead-acid batteries

• Where do your transportation carriers go?

Anchorage? Seattle?

• Is the recycler community-oriented?

Alaskans for Litter PreventionAnd Recycling

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SInvolve Your Community

Educate!

Raise Awareness! Planning!

Ladies in Wales taping

household batteries.Community members in Teller sharing vision drawings.

Youth group makingrecycle boxes out of

cardboard.

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SIdentify LOCAL/REGIONAL partners• Tribal governments • Municipalities (City)• Native corporations• National Park Service• Health corporation • College branch• Schools• Fisheries• Non-profits• Other?

• Pick up the phone!• Send an email• Ask questions• Research online• Learn about what systems are in place• Tap into Alaska’s tribal environmental family• Host a meeting

How do you start a relationship with those agencies?

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• Encourage hub community to coordinate the effort

• Host quarterly teleconferences with all communities invited

• Take advantage of conferences – meet with each other

• Encourage your hub community to apply for EPA Consortia

• Communicate challenges to see if someone has found a solution

• Share success stories

• Share, share, share!

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Read theYukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council’s

Backhaul Manual!

www.yritwc.org

Advantages to a regional program

• Strengthens everyone’s program

• Networking creates opportunity

• Information sharing (research, stats, anything!)

• Resource sharing (share costs, purchase equipment together)

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(Possible) Responsibilities of a Regional Coordinator

• Keep in contact with village program coordinators

• Coordinate receiving and shipping of materials (backhaul)

• Negotiate with transportation & recycling companies

• Bring in trainers (HAZMAT, Freon removal, water testing…)

• Pass on information between communities

• Regional planning (TEP, QAPP, ISWMP, etc.)

• Host teleconferences

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How do you let your community know about your program?

• Events (Clean Up Day, aluminum can drive)• Present at school assembly• Articles in the newspaper• Newsletters• Get on the radio• Host a potluck• Create flyers or posters• Other?

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MOAMemorandum of Agreement

MOUMemorandum of Understanding

LOULetters of Understanding

LOSLetters of Support

Resolutions

Show your appreciation!

“Those who don’t appreciate,

depreciate,” ~ Anahma’s dad.