Inventory Sheets for Backhaul

Inventory Sheets for Backhaul

(from the Integrated Solid Waste Plan Template for Alaska Native Villages, by Zender Environmental Health and Research Group

Note that the text in red is for filling in. Replace the red text/numbers with your community’s information.

The table below is to estimate how many backhaul-able special wastes you have stockpiled or sitting around your community right now. You can use this to plan for backhaul or for Spring Cleanup. If you are interested in backhauling, you must let the transporters know how much waste you have, and what type. For the excel version of this table (that calculates column D automatically), see

Wastes and Materials Stockpiled in Town, Port, or Disposal Site for Future Backhaul

Column A / Column B / Column C / Column D
Waste / How many of these wastes are stockpiled or sitting around your community now: / Average Weight of Single Item in pounds (lbs) / Estimated Total weight of wastes in your community now (=Column B x Column C)
Lead-acid batteries in boats / Boat: 5 / 40 lbs / 200 lbs (=5 x 40)
Lead-acid batteries in ATV's / Atv’s: 15 / 12 lbs / 180 lbs
Lead-acid batteries in Sno-gos / Sno-gos: 10 / 12 lbs / 120 lbs
Lead-acid batteries in cars or trucks / Car or Truck: 8 / 40 lbs / 320 lbs
Aluminum skiff (exc. engine): / 5 / 1000 lbs / 5000 lbs
Other boats (with engine): / 2 / 2000 lbs / 4000 lbs
Atv’s: / 4 / 800 lbs / 3,200 lbs
Sno-gos: / 5 / 1000 lbs / 5,000lbs
Car or Truck: / 3 / 2000 lbs / 6,000 lbs
Heavy Equipment / 1 / 10,000 lbs / 10,000 lbs
Refrigerators and freezers / 18 / 250 lbs / 4500 lb
Stoves, Washers, Dryers / 4 / 200 lb / 800 lb
Office fluorescent lights / 30 / 4 ft tube=0.7 lb / 21 lb
Empty 55 gallon drums / 25 / 50 lbs / 1250 lbs
Full 55 gallon drums of used oil / 5 / 600 lbs / 3000 lbs
Full 55 gallon drums of used antifreeze* / 1 / 600 lbs / 600 lbs
Full 55 gallon drums of unknown or mixed waste* / 3 / 600 lbs / 1800 lbs
Other??

For the below table, list the types and amounts of materials that are planned to be backhauled. Remember:

The total amount of wastes available for backhaul =

your stockpiled wastes + your annual generated wastes.

Refer to your stockpiled waste table and the appropriate annual generated wastes table for these numbers.

NOTE- the annual waste generation estimates how much waste is generated. Depending on your program and your community, some of the wastes generated may be difficult to recover for backhaul. For example, most of the lead acid batteries that are discarded in the trash instead of dropped off at a storage area probably won’t be available for backhaul. Recovering batteries from dump cleanups is difficult, and some won’t be found.

Also, remember your waste generation happens each year. So if you plan for backhaul in 3 years you will have your stockpiled wastes plus 3 x your annual generated wastes.

And you may not be able to backhaul all of the stockpiled wastes at once. Try to be realistic about what can be accomplished in a backhaul effort. For example, maybe only way you can get white goods backhauled out is by taking advantage of cargo planes returning back to anchorage from a construction project. If so, you would estimate how often you have construction projects (which is work you researched in Chapter 4 for community development and in the construction waste table). (Let us say that is every 2 years). And you would estimate how many white goods each plane could carry (let’s say that is 10 white goods). Then under “estimated date(s) for backhaul you could write fall 2011, fall 2013, fall 2015, etc. 10 at a time.

For the first column, the weight per item is available in the stockpiled waste table.

For future backhauling, note when the environmental program in your community should contact the barge company to check if a backhaul is planned for the upcoming year for your community.

Backhaul Inventory and Targeted Backhaul Date.

Waste/Material / Estimated amount to be backhauled (count or weight) / Where are the items being stored? How much is staged yet? / Estimated date(s) for backhaul / Notes
Refrigerators & freezers / 7500 lb now (30)
2,500 lb more by backhaul (10) / Dumpsite, as of 11/17/10, plus 3 at school. / 2012 summer / Need to contract out Freon removal for rest by may 2012
Junk cars / 20 now = 40,000 lb
10 more by backhaul =20,000 lb / No staging – they’re at dump and in town too. / 2015 / Discussed regional backhaul with our villages on 8/14/10. Contact becky long for update.
Miscellaneous scrap metal / 2020! / Waiting for really good price, then will send out as much as we can with the sewer project backhaul
Batteries (lead acid) / Every summer – 2nd barge / Need to call Interstate one month before we want to ship
Computers / When we get 1 pallet full / Plane won’t take more than 1 pallet at a time.
Other e-waste / We need to call total reclaim one week before we want to ship. As if there are any new requirements for shipping e-wastes.
Non-freon containing white goods
Cans / Looking into sending to seattle for better price. Trying to get a baler for this.
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