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Nauru 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.

Understanding Advance Recovery Fee and Deposit (ARFD) Scheme

A short video presentation to enhance understanding of what an Advance Recovery Fee and Deposit (ARFD) Scheme is.

Vanuatu 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.

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.

Asbestos Management Legislative and Regulatory Analysis – Policy Recommendations

This publication was developed to assist PacWastePlus participating countries to implement policy instruments that address the management of asbestos and asbestos containing materials (ACMs). This publication is the initial output of an assistance package of support for PacWastePlus countries to manage the importation of ACMs at a national level.

Asbestos Management Policy and Regulation for Pacific Island Countries and Timor-Leste

Justification brief for leaders (includes both policy and regulation opportunities)

This document is designed to assist PacWastePlus participating countries to implement legislative instruments that ban the importation of asbestos and asbestos containing materials (ACMs).

This document provides:
• Introductory information on asbestos, its impacts on human health, and current management asbestos management practices
• Information on the regulatory, and non-regulatory activities that can be implemented to reduce exposure risk from asbestos and ACM
• Justification for executing an ACM ban both through policy and regulation.

Cooks Island Project Profile – Implementing Sustainable Financing for Waste Management (Advance Recovery Fee and Deposit

Items are imported into the Cook Islands in growing numbers, but there are currently limited viable options for their end-of-life management and/or export. As such, most items imported are disposed of at landfills or stockpiled on vacant land. The priority for the Cook Islands is to reduce waste to landfill, and Infrastructure Cook Islands seeks to focus their PacWastePlus investment to support the implementation of an effective Sustainable Financing system (known as the Advance Recovery Deposit and Fee) to enable long-term, self-financing collection, and recovery of recyclable items. The Advance Recovery Fee and Deposit (ARFD) is a mechanism to • provide an incentive for consumers to return recoverable items to a collection depot, and • fund the collection and recycling of these item

Fiji Project Profile – Improving Organic Waste Management in Fiji’s Informal Settlements and Villages

One of the priorities of the Fiji Ministry of Environment is to improve organic waste management to support agricultural activities in Fiji. For this reason, the ministry is utilising the allocated PacWastePlus country investment to design and implement community-based programmes that effectively collect and process organic wastes to prevent environmental pollution and support agricultural activities. With around 60% of waste disposed at the disposal being an organic material, there is a significant opportunity to reduce leachate and methane generation and to create useful soil enhancers to increase agricultural yield.

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.

Kiribati Project Profile – Addressing Legacy Asbestos Containing Materials (ACM) on Banaba Island: Sound disposal, appropriate legislation and policies

Asbestos-containing materials are a major issue for many Pacific Island countries with a history of use of asbestos containing materials (ACM) in construction. All forms of asbestos are carcinogenic to humans and inhalation of asbestos fibres that have become airborne can cause serious lung disease. Kiribati seeks to utilise PacWastePlus funds and assistance to meaningfully engage in the management of ACM on Banaba Island with the goal of ultimately removed from the island this risk to human health and the environment.

Nauru Project Profile – Addressing Legacy ACM: Disposal best practice and establishing appropriate legislation and policies

Asbestos-containing materials are a major issue for many Pacific Island countries with a history of use of asbestos containing materials (ACM) in construction. All forms of asbestos are carcinogenic to humans and inhalation of asbestos fibres that have become airborne can cause serious lung disease. Asbestos poses a significant risk to the people of Nauru. PacWaste undertook the removal, transportation to the temporary storage [organized by the Nauru government], and replacement of the ACM in several Nauru public buildings. Nauru will utilise PacWastePlus investment and assistance to meaningfully engage in the management of asbestos-containing materials through implementation of best practice off-island disposal activities and establishing appropriate legislation and policies for the elimination of the importation of asbestos containing materials