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Disposal of used oil as a diesel extender in power plants is not a universally acceptable practice in the Pacific due to warrantee conditions placed on new electricity generating equipment

GEFPAS focal points have been contacted to supply contemporary used oil information, and contracted missions have been completed to Pohnpei, RMI and Fiji, with additional missions also completed opportunistically to Kiribati, Vanuatu and Niue.

This report covers the visit to the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) of March 4th to 11th 2018, as part of the consultancy engaged by SPREP under the Global Environment Facility's Pacific Assistance Strategy: Integrated Management of Solid and Hazardous Wastes and Persistent Organic Pollutants (GEFPAS uPOPS) project to update the situation in the RMI regarding their used oil stockpile.

This report covers the visit to Pohnpei of February 23rd to March 4th 2018, as part of the consultancy engaged by SPREP under the Global Environment Facility's Pacific Assistance Strategy: Integrated Management of Solid and Hazardous Wastes and Persistent Organic Pollutants (GEFPAS uPOPS) project to update the situation in Pohnpei, FSM regarding their used oil stockpile.

A significant number of reports have been generated between 2011 and 2014 on the status of used oil management in 14 GEFPAS Pacific Island countries. When analysed as a region, these reports suggest a number of clear priorities existed in 2014 for regional used oil management interventions...

The origin of this Action Strategy lies in the RETA (Regional Environmental Technical Assistance Project). No. 5403. funded by the Office of ihe Environment of the Asian Development Bank and executed by the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme. The Kingdom of Tonga was one of five countries which agreed to participate in a regional programme directed at strengthening the environmental management capabilities of Pacific Island member countries of the Asian Development Bank. A key element of the programme was the preparation of National Environmental Management Strategies (NEMS) for the participating countries: another (for all member countries) was training in Environmental Impact Assessment (ElA) procedures. In Tonga's case, the National Environmental Management Strategy was not prepared, as a detailed Environmental Management Plan (EMP) had already been prepared for the Kingdom over 1989- 1990 with the assistance of ESCAP (ESCAP 1990), and had been the subject of a major national symposium held in Nukualofa on 27-29 August 1990.