ALASKA (USA), Angoon - July 2001
Equipment for recycling and waste-streaming
for the community
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Angoon, accessible solely by ferry and float plane, is the only permanent settlement within the Admiralty Island National Monument in Southeast Alaska. This community of 700 people is a stronghold of Tlingit culture and still relies upon subsistence hunting, fishing and gathering for its nutritional needs. Because of its isolation, the packaging waste from the consumer goods that arrive by barge seldom leaves Admiralty Island and is threatening this vital environment. In 1998, village students and teachers formed a conservation group, ABARG! Seacology has assisted ABARG! in purchasing additional equipment, such as balers and collection bins, that are aiding in the community's increased efforts at recycling, responsible waste-streaming and beautification. *
UPDATE July 2004 - The town is continuing to use the recycling facilities. Students are providing most of the labor, with guidance from the school's science teacher. Proceeds from the recycled materials continue to pay the facility's electric bills. Recycled aluminum is now being sent along with the other recyclable materials. ABARG! plans to incorporate the recyclery’s efforts into the local school’s curriculum this year.
*Support for asterisked projects is provided fully or in part by the
Nu
Skin Enterprises Force for Good Foundation
