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 Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

This guidance offers no judgment on the type of method best suited to any particular Nation, but identifies some of the options available for consideration in materials dumping at sea. The purpose is to make available the guide lines for the assessment of dumping of materials.

 Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

This Kit comprises a wide range of information ranging from practical help with the nuts and bolts of recycling
different materials, all the way through information about toxic wastes and landfills, to Deposit Refund systems for collecting recyclables, legislation and planning waste strategies. Also included are tips on public awareness campaigning, recycling equipment, and the road to a Zero Waste world.

 Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous and their Disposal (the Basel Convention) is the broadest and most significant international treaty on hazardous and other wastes.

This guidance document is primarily meant to be a practical guide for the national technical officials responsible for the collection of information for the preparation of the national reports that are to be submitted annually to the Secretariat of the Basel Convention.

 Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

The waste audit was undertaken by Nauru Rehabilitation Corporation and the Department of Commerce, Industry and Environment for Nauru in close collaboration with T+TI (remotely) supporting the delivery of the waste audit and other key stakeholders. The audit took place from 7 to 15 December 2020, excluding 13 December 2020.

 Nauru Department of Commerce, Industry and Environment

Survey of the regional distribution and status of asbestos- contaminated construction material and best practice options for its management in Pacific Island Countries

Report for the Republic of Nauru

 Nauru Department of Commerce, Industry and Environment

a register of waste-tracking in Nauru;

 Nauru Department of Commerce, Industry and Environment,  Nauru Rehabilitation Corporation

Review of background information provided by Nauru including the National Solid Waste Strategy and background data.

 Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

Waste audit data collection under the PacWaste Project for the year 2020

 Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

Pacific Regional Solid Waste Management Strategy 2010 – 2015

 Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

Review of Regional E-Waste Recycling

 Nauru Department of Commerce, Industry and Environment

Nauru faces many economic and environmental challenges. In the 1970s the country experienced an economic boom due to phosphate mining, however, because of mismanagement of the revenue, the country currently has limited financial resources to undertake many of its development programmes including environmentally sound waste management. In the face of a range of environmental, social and economic threats from poor waste management and pollution, and in the context of the limited resources, this National Solid Waste Management Strategy is developed as a matter of priority.

 Nauru Department of Commerce, Industry and Environment

Marine pollution originating from purse seine and longline fishing vessel operations in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean, 2003-2015.