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Kodiak Area Native Association has received approximately $1.33 million to improve the landfills in Kodiak’s six remote villages. The grant was one of 17 announced Friday by U.S. Sens. Lisa
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Alaska is set somewhat in a world of its own when it comes to its geography, and it’s also set apart in how it manages solid waste, largely because of that unique landscape. The far northwest state is two and a half times larger than Texas but has a population of less than 750,000, translating to about 1.3 people per square mile. Nearly a third of Alaskans live in rural communities with no access to the state’s few and distant lined, class 1 landfills and depend on unlined sites to dispose of their waste, though they and operators are supported by Alaska’s Department of Environmental Co...