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Due to impacts of Cyclone Ana and COVID-19 restriction, only Labasa, in Macuata Province of the Northern Division of Vanua Levu, were audited. The absence of waste audit data for Suva has meant that reporting to key performance indicators at a national level was not possible. Future waste audits will need to include Suva to better represent Fiji's waste management situation.

Since 2018, Sustainable Coastlines has been delivering a long-term citizen science program in New Zealand to collect open-access scientific data on marine liter and use it to turn insights into action.

Every year, the amount of plastic waste entering aquatic ecosystems between 9-14 million tons of projection could nearly triple to 23-37 millon tons per year by 2040.

Marine litter negatively affects the environment, people and coastal economies around the world. In the Pacific Region, the problem is even more severe given countries reliance on healthy ocean ecosystems and services.

Action conducted by the Pacific Ocean Litter Youth Project (POLYP) & Suva Harbour Foundation Marine litter negatively affects the environment, people and coastal economies around the world. In the Pacific region, the problem is even more severe given countries’ reliance on healthy ocean ecosystems and services

A monthly e-bulletin of activities and assistance from the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme to its member countries.

This document gives an overview of the current state of waste management in Fiji. Key data compiled in this document include: "waste managements acts, waste categorization, waste collection, waste disposal, waste recycling, financial assistance to manage waste in country and recommendations to improve solid waste management in Fiji.

Kokusai Kogyo Company Limited (KKCL), the client, has engaged SCOPE Pacific (SPL) to conduct the Waste & Composition Survey (WACS) as part of The Japanese Technical Cooperation Project for Promotion of Regional Initiative on Solid Waste Management in Pacific Island Countries Phase 2 This report included the following:  pre-survey questionnaire to collect basic household data, concerns and perceived disposal patterns.  Waste collection, segregation & weighing  Data analysis The purpose of the study was to obtain household solid waste data of present amount and composition from participants in the two cities in The Republic of Fiji Islands - Suva and Lautoka. The results of the survey are to be used by the client to understand the waste flows in both Suva and Lautoka; and to use as a nationwide baseline for household solid waste flows.

This document highlights JPRISM II activities conducted in Fiji during project period (2017-2022) including national & regional outputs of the Project.

As a Party, Fiji is obliged to enact national regulations to bring the conventions into the national regulatory framework. It is these national laws and regulations that then provide the implementing mechanisms to manage asbestos and ensure compliance with the conventions.