{"id":25096,"date":"2016-04-01T08:03:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T15:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/kodiak-students-create-bear-proof-trash-bins\/"},"modified":"2016-04-01T08:03:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T15:03:20","slug":"kodiak-students-create-bear-proof-trash-bins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/kodiak-students-create-bear-proof-trash-bins\/","title":{"rendered":"Kodiak students create bear-proof trash bins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KODIAK<\/strong> \u2014 High school students in Kodiak are working to help wildlife and the community with a project to turn regular trash bins into ones that are bear-resistant.<\/p>\n<p>The project is a joint effort by the Kodiak Brown Bear Trust, Alaska Waste and Kodiak High School. Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist Nate Svoboda had presented the groups with the idea in order to bring awareness to responsible waste management, The Kodiak Daily Mirror reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a community issue and so I thought it\u2019d be more appropriate to have it be a community endeavor to get everyone on board, particularly the younger students,\u201d Svoboda said. \u201cGet them involved with this so they have a vested interest in it and can help us spread the word about being responsible with waste management.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Kodiak Brown Bear Trust provided the welding and art students with $1,000 for supplies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of our pillars is outreach and education, anything to do with bears,\u201d said trust chairman Paul Chervenak. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty important for a lot of the outlying areas around town to have bear proof Dumpsters and also to spread the message, and I think these will be very effective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The students added aluminum lids to the trash bins along with attachments to keep the lids closed, making it difficult for bears to get in to. They finished up the project by decorating the outside of the bins with messaging about bears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe tried to make them as sturdy as possible, because they are Dumpsters and they are outside in the weather and we need them to be pretty strong,\u201d said junior Scott Larionoff. \u201cWe created the lids, measured the metal and cut it out, and then welded it together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senior Jennifer Menjivar said the project will have an impact on the community and shows \u201cthat we do care about what goes on in the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alaska Waste does not yet know where the newly designed trash bins will be placed, said lead driver James Zurflueh, but the goal is to put them on display at Kodiak\u2019s Crab Festival.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Information from: Kodiak (Alaska) Daily Mirror, http:\/\/www.kodiakdailymirror.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KODIAK \u2014 High school students in Kodiak are working to help wildlife and the community with a project to turn regular trash bins into ones that are bear-resistant. The project is a joint effort by the Kodiak Brown Bear Trust, Alaska Waste and Kodiak High School. Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist Nate Svoboda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":25097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-25096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25096"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}