Kaoki Mange! solid waste management project, Kiribati : annual report 2004

Abstract

2004 has seen the Kaoki Mange! Project move into its Phase II operations, to set up a Materials Recovery Facility that could handle 25,000 beverage containers per day returned under a con- tainer deposit system. The project has facilitated the drafting of the legislation, which has since passed Parliament in Kiribati. Atrial of the deposit refund system had been run for three months, and full system material and financial flows monitoring is in place. Recycling of aluminium cans, PET and HDPE and PP plastics, cardboard boxes, lead-acid batteries, electronic and steel scraps are all underway. Three shipping containers of materials have already been exported.