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Samoa Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
The strategy outlines priority areas based on an analysis of Samoa's solid and chemical and hazardous waste management system.
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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Japanese Technical Cooperation Project for Promotion of Regional Initiative on Solid Waste Management (J-PRISM)
This case study highlights the successful process through which the National Waste Management Strategy (NWMS) in Samoa was formulated.
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Samoa Recycling and Waste Management Association (SRWMA)
Japanese Technical Cooperation Project for Promotion of Regional Initiative on Solid Waste Management (J-PRISM)
The report covers the waste oil activities implemented in Samoa and presents procedures, results and issues of the waste oil collection during the study.
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World Bank Group (WBG)
This report presents the findings of a study that includes an overview of the Samoan waste sector, current resource recovery, and institutional arrangements, private sector engagement and available infrastructure for both waste management and recycling.
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International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Most efforts to minimize and mitigate the impacts of plastic pollution are focused on the mainland, particularly rivers and coastal areas. To date, not much attention has been paid to islands.

This factsheet highlights IUCN's Plastic Waste Free Islands (PWFI) project - part of its global Close the Plastic Tap Programme -...

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Pacific Waste Management
This case study analyses how Samoa is using allocated PacWastePlus investment to design and implement an e-waste take-back system to reduce pollution, as well as its resulting environmental and health impacts.
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Pacific Hazardous Waste Management
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
European Union (EU)
These country profiles summarize priority areas, including healthcare waste, e-waste and asbestos, in an effort to improve regional hazardous waste management across the Pacific.
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ENVIRON Australia
This report presents findings and offers recommendations of an assessment conducted for Samoa on the management of healthcare waste and best practice options for its disposal.
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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
The review analyses the e-waste situation in 14 Pacific Island nations. It starts with a brief history of efforts to deal with the problem of e-waste and presents recommendations for each country.