Projects

PacWastePlus Regional Projects

PacWastePlus is delivering projects both regionally, and directly in each participating country.

How we are assisting the region with improved waste management?

PacWastePlus is investing in regional projects that support and improve waste management and positive environmental outcomes for businesses, community groups, and social enterprises. The PacWastePlus team has worked closely with government teams from each country to develop projects that will assist with the efficient and effective management of waste in the region.

Regional Projects
9
Waste Streams
5
Others
4

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Advance Recovery Fees and Deposits

This regional project will be to raise awareness of ARDF systems and guide decision-makers through the operational, financial, and legislative factors to design and implement their own successful system to enable sustainable financing for waste management.

Asbestos Management

This regional project is assisting countries to effectively remediate legacy asbestos, and regulate the use, transport, and disposal of asbestos to protect human health from the harmful effects caused by exposure. Activities will include targeted public awareness, development of legislation, regulations, and a regional template Code of Practice to improve management and handling.

Behaviour Change Pilot Projects

This regional project will assist regional countries to change community attitude and behavior, their relationship to waste, or beliefs, social norms, and how it can contribute towards sustainable waste management by identifying opportunities for behavioral interventions in improving waste management and in achieving a more circular economy.

Disaster Waste Management

This regional project is assisting countries to be more resilient to natural disasters through the development of national disaster waste taskforces, and the promotion and implementation of the regional disaster waste management guideline, and a partnership with the Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific (FRDP).

Healthcare Waste Management

This regional project is assisting countries to improve healthcare waste management through the repair and maintenance of healthcare waste technology, assessment of alternative technologies, development of national strategies, and local plans, and provision of equipment and training to reduce the risk of exposure to this waste type.

Organics Management

PacWastePlus is assisting Pacific Island Countries to improve the management of End-Of-Life vehicles and End-of-Life Tyres by providing guidelines and technical notes on safe handling and dismantling and options for in-country management of these items.

Regional Bulky Waste Management

This regional project is assisting Pacific Island Countries to improve the management of End-Of-Life vehicles and End-of-Life Tyres by providing guidelines and technical notes on safe handling and dismantling and options for in-country management of these items.

Regional Course Development

This project intends to enhance regional capacity development opportunities for waste management training and courses development based on country needs.

School Curriculum

Through this regional project, we intend to involve and emphasise the important role that schools play as an educational agent sensitising future generations on waste management

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Advance Recovery Fees and Deposits

By design, Advance Recovery Fee and Deposit (ARFD) systems provide a regular funding mechanism to enable the collection and export of recyclable items. When target items are imported, a small fee and deposit is applied – the “fee” providing recycling agencies with a sustainable income to fund recycling activities, and the “deposit” providing an incentive for consumers to return products to a recycle collection point (and be refunded their deposit).

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Asbestos

Asbestos-containing materials are a major issue for many Pacific Island countries with a history of use of Asbestos Containing Materials (ACM) in building construction. All forms of asbestos are carcinogenic to humans, and inhalation of asbestos fibres that have become airborne can cause serious lung disease.

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Behaviour Change Pilot Projects

PacWastePlus is designed to assist participating countries to work with their communities to change attitudes and behaviours, and their relationship to the waste they generate. The social science of behaviour change is one of many tools available to countries to encourage change and positive environmental outcomes, and PacWastePlus will work with countries to pilot behaviour change projects to determine how best they can be structured and delivered in the Pacific & Timor-Leste.

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Disaster Waste

The intensity and frequency of natural disasters such as tropical cyclones are evidently increasing in the Pacific. When these natural disasters occur large amounts of waste are generated from damage to both the natural and man-made environment.

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Healthcare Waste

Health-care waste includes all the waste generated by health-care establishments, research facilities, and laboratories. In addition, it includes the waste originating from “minor” or “scattered” sources—such as that produced during health care undertaken in the home (dialysis, insulin injections, etc.). Healthcare waste management (HCWM) is a process that ensures proper handling and disposal of the HCW in a safe way. HCWM includes all the steps necessary for waste management from planning to disposal.

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Organics

Organic material is biodegradable matter such as kitchen scraps (food); garden cuttings, grass and branches; and paper. Combined data from 13 waste audits in the Pacific found that approximately 40% of waste disposal to our landfills and dumps is organics. When processed correctly (in an “aerobic” or oxygen-filled environment), organic materials can produce valuable nutrient rich products, such as compost, suitable for soil enhancement and food cultivation. However, when intermingled with other waste and disposed in a landfill or dump (an “anaerobic” environment), organic material can release toxic leachate and generate methane gas.

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