This interactive session provides solutions for waste management challenges within tribal communities and is informative to Tribal officials for waste management. The first presentation examines the collaboration between EPA researchers and the Fort Peck Tribe, focusing on the adaptation of tools for local waste transfer station cleanup. This initiative highlights the tailored approach to waste estimation, storage, and transfer routes. The second presentation introduces the efforts by EPA and Cold Climate Housing Research Center for low-cost anaerobic digesters to manage human waste in remote Alaskan tribes. Faced with the challenges posed by melting permafrost, this work aims at developing sustainable, solar-heated anaerobic digestion systems. Both studies aim to provide innovative approaches to environmental and public health in indigenous territories.
