ONC Environmental Program

11/07/2022

Recyclables ♻️ reuse, reduce

08/12/2022

News announcement! AVCP is accepting e-wastes from all, and so we are here to help.

We are excited to share with everyone that we are updating our ONC's Environmental Recycling Program by offering to pick up Electronic wastes such as printers, televisions, DVD players, computer monitors/towers, radios, microwaves, telephones, cellphones, laptops, wires and cords, anything that is considered an ELECTRONIC. We can also pick up household batteries too.
As for dryers, washing machines, electric ranges, freezers, we may offer information on how to fix them to help save you $$$ instead of throwing them away.

Why are we doing this? It's because we want to help reduce the amount of harmful toxins entering the environment and landfill. We want to help reduce the amount of exposure to unwanted litter near dumpsters.

We want to help encourage the community to help us reduce the amount of exposure of lead and other PFAS from where children play. The dumpsters are too close to the playgrounds and near neighboring homes where families with children live/play nearby.

We've actually found a lot of broken TV and computer screens pieces scattered near parks and in playgrounds while working with our ALPAR YLP! Dumpsters have a lot of harmful contaminants found in the soil around them and then so much more at the landfill. All because of no recycling!

The glass cathode ray tubes and circuit boards in older TVs contain an average of 4 to 8 pounds of lead - a potent neurotoxin that can cause brain damage in children - Exposed.
Please don't allow children to play near dumpsters or allow them to get "mud" from nearby to make mud pies!

TV screens and tubes also contain other toxic substances such as barium and cadmium. TV wiring is often insulated with polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and flame retardants, which have been linked to illness in children. Ever wonder why your children keep getting sick??? It could just be caused from exposure to things you don't know about that can be found right out your back door!

Computers contain toxic heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, mercury and chromium, all carcinogenic and not easily degraded. Electronics should not be tossed into the landfill! Please help us recycle!

For anyone wishing to participate please call us at ONC 907-543-0516 and speak with Mary Matthias.

P.s. Please don't drop off anything near the ONC office. We'd rather pick up all recyclables and electronic waste. Thank you and please feel free to share this announcement with others.

07/14/2022

A job well done today! Our ONC' Summer ALPAR YLP were able to take advantage of this good summer weather in performing litter patrols around mid-town here in Bethel. The sun was shining all throughout the day. We still have 8 positions open for our ALPAR YLP Team! They're earning $15.50 an hour, working 20 hours a week. If there are any interested youth between the ages of 14 - 17 and want to work, please call 907-543-0516 to apply.
Both Dylan and Lacey are great team leaders and would be more than happy to work with more people.
Tomorrow morning we will be joining KYUK for Coffee talk! We have some good news to share with our community, so stay tuned!

07/08/2022

Good afternoon everyone,
We have a message from our ALPAR Youth Litter Patrol:
We are welcoming the community of Bethel to participate in cleaning up litter around their homes, businesses, auto shops, etc. We will be choosing different neighborhoods to perform our litter patrols. The only thing that we can do is clean up around public areas and are restricted from cleaning around private properties such as homes/houses.
We want to help keep our community clean throughout the summer. And here's the catch, we plan to have a contest with each neighborhood we visit in seeing who can help us pick up the most litter from each 'community neighborhood'. For the neighborhoods that hold the highest litter bag count will earn a BBQ cook out! Yes, a BBQ Cook Out! Please help us make this happen. We need our community's support and recognition and we want to make this a fun project outcome.
We will issue ALPAR Yellow Litter Bags to help build support for our ALPAR Youth Program. Yellow bags can be used for filling with litter and the green for recyclables. We will also distribute our Green ALPAR recycling bags for those who would like to participate in our Recycling Contest.
For those who would like to participate would have to help pick up trash/litter around their yards, and once the yellow bags are filled, we will want people to place their bags next to ours so that we can track/count the bags collected. We also want to encourage the community participants to help separate their collections of recyclables from the litter they pick up. By doing this, they will earn extra points for their neighborhoods.

And last but not least, is that if anyone wants to share a concern relating to litter or other environmental health problems that they are having a problem with, please share that information with our supervisor and we will see how to help.
Please share this post to help spread the word around. We hope that this message gets around and gathers enough support from our local organizations too. Our community's support will be tremendously appreciated! See you folks out there! We will be wearing our ALPAR Youth Litter Patrol Vests.
All the best,
ONC ALPAR Youth Litter Patrol!

07/06/2022

Today's activities with the ALPAR Youth Litter Patrollers, Lacey Samuelson and Dylan Demientiff. They helped process collected recyclables ♻️ which were dropped off at NAC, then we delivered recycling alpar bags to the first family who expressed interested in signing up their children to participate in our ALPAR Youth's Recycling Contest! They were also willing to help volunteer in recruiting neighbors in the Tundra Ridge area to help start the ALPAR's Neighborhood Summer Greenup Cleanup Contest! Way to Go!
Our YLP was then joined by a couple of younger kids who were eager to help us pick up litter near the tundra Ridge playground (not pictured) They were awesome!! We found a lot of broken glass and a lot of broken TV screen pieces that were scattered around all throughout the playground. We need the community to work together in finding ways to help reduce lead exposure to all young children. Please don't throw away tvs or computers. Instead reach out to AVCP who may offer to collect those items.
The other problem we would like help with is restoring a healthier and safer environment at the abandoned playground in AHFC housing. There's a lot of big things that must be removed including the oil spill. Let's all work together. Recycle and pick up litter.

06/28/2022

Good afternoon everyone,

We have a message from our ALPAR Youth Litter Patrol:

We are welcoming the community of Bethel to participate in cleaning up litter around their homes, businesses, auto shops, etc. We will be choosing different neighborhoods to perform our litter patrols. The only thing that we can do is clean up around public areas and are restricted from cleaning around private properties such as homes/houses.

We want to help keep our community clean throughout the summer. And here's the catch, we want to hold a contest with each neighborhood we visit in seeing who can help us pick up the most litter from each 'community neighborhood'. For the neighborhoods that hold the highest litter bag count will earn a BBQ cook out! Yes, a BBQ Cook Out! Please help us make this happen. We need our community's support and recognition and we want to make this a fun project outcome.

We will be knocking on doors to issue ALPAR Yellow Litter Bags to help build support for our ALPAR Youth Program. We will also distribute our Green ALPAR recycling bags for those who would like to participate in our Recycling Program.

For those who would like to participate would have to help pick up trash/litter around their yards, and once the yellow bags are filled, we will want people to place their bags next to ours so that we can track/count the bags collected. We also want to encourage the community participants to help separate their collections of recyclables from the litter they pick up. By doing this, they will earn extra points for their neighborhoods. And last but not least, is that if anyone wants to share a concern relating to litter or other environmental health problems that they are having a problem with, please share that information with our supervisor and we will see how to help.

Please share this post to help spread the word around. We hope that this message gets around and gathers enough support from our local organizations too. Our community's support will be tremendously appreciated! See you folks out there! We will be wearing our ALPAR Youth Litter Patrol Vests.

All the best,

ONC ALPAR Youth Litter Patrol!

06/22/2022

The ONC Environmental Program is recruiting an Environmental Committee, we need at least 4 more tribal members to sign up. To find out more info, please email us or call our office. Thanks!

06/22/2022

Hey ya'll we still have 8 more openings with our ALPAR YLP! Come stop by ONC or give Mary Matthias a call at 907-543-0516.

Hey y'all! Sorry we haven't posted anything for a while.
We would like to share our ALPAR Youth Litter Patrol Summer Employment. We have a deadline set for June 15 for interested youth to sign up. Last year we interviewed elders, met with younger kids at the Bethel 4H Youth Club, worked with Culture Camp kids, picked up litter and shared educational awareness with the community of Bethel. This year we received funding from the City of Bethel's Community Action Grant to help employ more youth to work! Please call or stop by ONC today to sign up yourselves/your kids. Sorry, youth must be between 14-17 years old.
Please call the numbers provided in the flyer

06/17/2022

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