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Improving Battery Collection & Recycling Rates on Tribal Lands

Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure law, EPA is charged with developing labeling guidelines and collection best practices to improve the recycling rates of various types of batteries. This includes…

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Modernizing a Tribal Transfer Station for a Sustainable Future

This presentation is geared towards tribes with waste transfer stations that are looking to make technological, structural, and environmental improvements to their site. The first part of the…

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Making a Case for Federal Solid Waste O&M Funding - Highlights From Tribal Workgroup Members

Can you afford to provide residential solid waste services? Have you undertaken rate analysis or developed a fee structure? This session will highlight a national effort to calculate cost of solid…

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Incorporating TEK Tribal Worldview Into "Traditional" Solid Waste Management Trainings

(With Jacqueline Shirley of the Rural Community Assistance Corporation/Native Village of Hooper Bay) Please join this session to learn about how important it is to incorporateTraditional Ecological…

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Reducing Plastic & Food Waste at a Tribal Hall - A Tribal Case Study

Pala Environmental Department did a pilot last year, to reduce/replace the amount of plastic (disposable) containers that we use daily to serve tribal senior/employee lunches, tribal hall events and…

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The Backhaul Alaska Program

Audience: All Alaska Tribes and Tribes in the lower 48 where a hub and spoke model for recycling could apply. This session will give an overview and current update of the Backhaul Alaska program.…

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Sustainable Waste Solutions Through Collaborative Innovation

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…

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Demonstrating Results of Waste Management with GAP

The American Indian Environmental Office (AIEO) at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will share the new Supplemental Guidance on Providing Waste Data in GAP Progress Reports with…

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ArcGIS Field Mapping is Changing the World! Learn to Conduct Open Dump Assessments using GIS Technology

Remember going out into the field and filling out endless paper forms only to get back to office and find some of your paperwork missing, torn, damaged, and/or illegible? Remember when you had to…

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ArcGIS Field Mapping is Changing the World! Learn to Conduct Open Dump Assessments using GIS Technology

Remember going out into the field and filling out endless paper forms only to get back to office and find some of your paperwork missing, torn, damaged, and/or illegible? Remember when you had to…

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Decreasing Contamination! Understanding the Composition of your Waste Stream AND Let's Explore EPA's Solid Waste Resources!

Recycling contamination has recently become a global concern. High rates of contaminated recycling mixed with recent closures of banned imports has demanded a desperate need for cleaner recycling. A…

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GAME TIME! Construction & Demolitions Landfills - A Board Game

This session takes the admittedly dull and boring subject of regulations and turns them into a fun and instructional board game. In the first part of the session, participants will learn some basic…

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Who Are We to Judge: Assessing Tribal Capacity for Solid Waste Project Funding AND USDA Rural Development Solid Waste Programs and Grant Opportunities

As part of certifying that a tribal solid waste project is 'Ready to Fund', the Indian Health Service collaborates with EPA-ORCR to evaluate a tribes solid waste management capacity. EPA is…

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Not In My Backyard! Addressing Open Dumps on Tribal Lands

There is more than one way to address open dumping. This panel of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Indian Health Service (IHS) speakers will discuss the priority of Open Dump elimination and…

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TRAINING: 2022 Indian General Assistance Program (GAP) Guidance Training: Supporting Tribal Communities Develop their Solid & Hazardous Waste Programs, and Environmental Priorities (part 2)

EPA's American Indian Environmental Office (AIEO) published the 2022 GAP Guidance on September 30, 2022, which supersedes the 2013 GAP Guidance. The new Guidance provides opportunities for…

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An Introduction to San Xavier Cooperative Farm

This presentation was delivered as part of the Tribal Lands and Environment Forum: Virtual Gathering in August 2021 by Virginia LeClere with the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, Duran Andrews with the…

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