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Asbestos Management Brief: FSM

The PacWastePlus Regional Asbestos Project will support countries in executing solutions, both legislative and policy-driven, to prevent exposure to asbestos fibre, and thereby reduce asbestos-related diseases. This document provides guidance for FSM to progress work on the development and implementation of a National ACM ban with this resource providing background information, identifying policy and legislative options available.

Federated States of Micronesia Waste Audit Report

The information and data gathered from these waste audits will be used by countries in the Pacific to support the development and monitoring of waste and resource recovery projects and recommend the infrastructure and policy interventions required. The regional dataset will also be used to identify and evaluate potential regional projects that would improve waste management in the region.

FSM Project Profile – Improving Organic Waste Management in Chuuk and Yap

A recent audit for the states of Chuuk and Yap identified more than 20% of the wastes landfilled is organic waste. This is mainly due to the absence of a designated programme (collection services and processing station) and community awareness to effectively manage organic waste in the two states. Landfilling of organic waste is a concern in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) as in most Pacific countries, as it takes up critical landfill space. Decomposition of organics in an anaerobic environment like landfills also generates leachate and methane. FSM seeks to focus their PacWastePlus country investment to divert all organic waste away from landfills. The project will pilot organic waste management, in the states of Chuuk and Yap, with learnings used to develop community awareness resources to assist other states in FSM, to replicate similar programmes to divert organic wastes from landfills.

Stocktake of Existing and Pipeline Waste Legislation – Federated States of Micronesia

This report contains the University of Melbourne (UoM) team’s findings relating to a stocktake of the existing legislative environment for waste management in the participating countries, focusing on the PacWastePlus priority waste streams of healthcare waste, asbestos, e-waste, plastic waste, recyclables, organics, disaster waste, bulky waste and wastewater, and including implementing legislation for the following multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs): Waigani, Basel, Stockholm, Rotterdam, and Minamata. It also includes a stocktake of pipeline legislative initiatives in the participating countries, including an assessment of their impact and approximate timeframe for development. This report provides details on a stocktake of existing and pipeline Waste Legislations in the Federated States of Micronesia.

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