The overflowing Jable–Batkan dumpsite in Majuro is an urgent problem for waste management faced in the Marshall Islands. The dumpsite has long exceeded its design capacity with waste now pushed up to 17 metres high against a seawall on the ocean side of the atoll.
As reducing waste disposal at the dumpsite is a national priority, the country's Environmental Protection Agency seeks 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 organics facility.
In addition to reducing 40% of waste disposal at the dumpsite, almost doubling its remaining lifespan, this project will provide local organic compost to communities to assist improve with soil quality and crop yield.
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