A reference section includes sample documents, forms, plans, permits and contact information. This guide assists individuals, communities and schools in reducing solid waste. The guide highlights a number of solutions that have succeeded in Alaska Native Villages. Much of this money is needed for waste facilities construction. There are approximately 200 Native villages in Alaska.
Sewage is collected in buckets and emptied each day into lagoons, barrels or cesspools.
In the spring when the snow melts, the winter's sewage appears again in the village. Children play in the yellow snow. We can only imagine the sight. Alaska Natives live with it and many health problems result. Congressional Record, November 21, 1993.