IN YOUR COMMUNITY

DEVELOPING PARTNERSHIPS

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

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What are your options?

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SIdentify 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!

Participation!

Planning!Ladies in Wales taping

household batteries.

Community members in Teller sharing vision drawings.

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SIdentify LOCAL/REGIONAL partners

• Tribal governments • Municipalities (City)• Native corporations• National Park Service• Health corporation • College branch• Schools• Fisheries• 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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Question:Frank lives in a small village on a big river. They

get regular barge service and air cargo once a day. He knows there’s a build up of electronic waste in the

community but doesn’t know how to get the e-waste out of town.

He asks you how he can save the electronics from being thrown in the landfill.

What advice do you give?

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How can we work together to create a regional program?

• Encourage your hub community to coordinate

• Host quarterly teleconferences with all communities invited

• Take advantage of conferences – meet with each other

• Share success stories

• Communicate challenges to see if someone has found a solution

• Encourage your hub community to apply for EPA Consortia

• Share, share, share

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Advantages to regional program

• Information sharing (research, stats, anything!)

• Resource sharing (share costs for putting on trainings,

purchase equipment together, etc.)

• Strengthens everyone’s program

• Networking creates opportunity

• Helps workers to feel supported = happy workers =

longevity

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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…)

• Help to pass on information between communities

• Host teleconferences

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

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Question:

You live in a rural village and feel you need moresupport with your program. You’ve heard of other

villages around you with similar programs.

What are some ways in which you can support each other?

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How do you let your community know about your program?

• Events (Clean Up Day, aluminum can drive)

• Newsletters

• Articles in the newspaper

• Get on the radio

• Host a potluck

• Present at school assembly

• Create flyers or posters

• Other?

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Aluminum cans = $$ -------------------------------

------------Youth group fundraiser!

Freezers stacking up--------------------------------------------Need Freon removal training

Airplanes returning empty ------------------------------Reduced backhaul rate!

Three villages need barrel crusher ------------------------Purchase crusher together

Connect the Dots

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AGREEMENTS

MOA

Memorandum of Agreement

MOUMemorandum of Understanding

LOULetters of Understanding

LOSLetters of Support

Resolutions

Tribal Environmental Plan (TEP) is developed to identify environmental and public health

concerns and set goals and priorities for future years. It may include a vision of your community

in 50 years with goals and objectives of how to get there.

The TEP will prioritizethe development of other plans.

TEP

Where are

you going?

Taken from ITEP Fact Sheet TEP

Advisory Committee

A working group/committee helps you to:• Assess your community situation• Identify resources• Develop goals and prioritization (strategizing)• Create and communicate a plan to further thestrategies within the community• Make recommendations on resources andmaterials• Engage the community, develop partnerships• Aid in the decision making process• Share the workload and identify volunteers• Evaluate options

Taken from Zender Environmental – Community Involvement for ISWMP PPT

Show appreciation!

“Those who don’t appreciate, depreciate,” Anahma’s dad.

String Game

What elements do we need to have in placein our community to ensure the success

of our environmental programs?