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Recycling Market Summary Booklet.

Description:
Small island nations face a host of logistic and financial barriers in attempts to increase local recycling rates. The exportation of recycled material presents a range of benefits for nations with the inability to dispose or reuse waste in an environmentally beneficial manner. This could be due to the shortage of landfill capacity on-island, the risk of hazardous chemical pollution or the lack of primary industries in the Pacific region. Fro some waste stream, there is a potential for commodification if export is achieve efficiently.
Display date:
2022
Location:
Pacific Region
Collections:
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Publisher:
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Content partner:
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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