Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Publication Year:
2021
Publication Place
Apia, Samoa
Physical Description:
8 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Relevant Countries
Republic of the Marshall Islands
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
44375
ISBN:
978-982-04-0994-1
Image
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
Waste management - Organic Waste - Republic of Marshall Islands
Waste Minimization - Refuse and refuse disposal - RMI
Abstract
The overflowing Jable-Batkan dumpsite in Majuro is the urgent problem for waste management faced in the RMI. This dumpsite has long exceeded its design capacity with waste now pushed up to 17m high against a seawall on the ocean side of the atoll. The priority for RMI is to reduced waste disposal at the dumpsite. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seek to focus their PacWastePlus investment to introduce a programme to divert the largest two components of waste organics (17% and paper/cardboard (22%) from disposal and instead be processed to compost at an organic facility.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Publication Year:
2021
Publication Place
Apia, Samoa
Physical Description:
8 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Relevant Countries
Republic of the Marshall Islands
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
44375 Record Created: 22-Nov-2021
Record Modified: 14-Feb-2022