Assessment of Status and Options for Solid Waste Management on Majuro Atoll

Abstract

Pattle Delamore Partners Ltd (PDP) has been engaged by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) to undertake an assessment of the status and options for solid waste management (SWM) on Majuro Atoll. This work is being done under the Atoll Waste Management Component of the Pacific Hazardous Waste Management Programme (PacWaste) which aims to demonstrate the establishment of an integrated sustainable SWM system in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) which improves and expands on existing 4R practices (Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle), improves existing waste collection and disposal practices, and which is founded on user-pays and polluter-pays principles. The field work for this consultancy was completed in June-July 2014.