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Youth Area Watch - Community Restoration
Project - Nanwalek 2000
We have been working on an on-going project with
deals with the recycling of aluminum cans, in
conjunction with the Americore program, the JR High
class along with the Youth Area Watch, that allows
the community to take part in. We started this
project by putting up signs, flyers, posters and
bulletins asking for the community's help with
collecting aluminum cans.
We chose this project because aluminum cans were
filling our landfill, polluting and defacing our
public areas. Youth Area Watch and JR High
volunteered to implement the program, but those in
the village who participated volunteered their time
by saving their cans. Therefore, making this
project an on-going successful adventure. On
weekends kids collected cans from family homes,
took them to a central gathering spot and crushed
the cans. Youth Area Watch kids wrote letters to
local air taxi companies asking if they would enter
the project by flying the cans from Nanwalek to
Homer, since we have no roads connecting us. At
this time the outcome of this question is still
unknown. But we still continue to collect cans in
the hopes that they can continue the cycle of the
three R's &endash; Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. A lot
less cans are ending up in the dump therefore
reducing its volume, which is our goal. Even though
we are in a rural area we believed recycling was a
viable project to help conserve natural resources
and reduce waste.
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