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Water Infrastructure and Resiliency Finance Center

Revenue Options for a Waste Backhaul Service Program in Rural Alaska

This EFAB report assesses revenue options for a program in rural Alaska to backhaul hazardous waste and other materials from rural Alaskan communities to reduce the toxicity of landfill leachate and of emissions from open waste burning.

The report presents a range of revenue options with the potential for supporting backhaul program operations, identification of opportunities for generating revenues through materials recycling, and development of a ten-year business plan showing how the various funding options would progress.

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