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In 2000, Pacific Islands Handbook Of International Marine Pollution Conventions was Published by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), in conjunction with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO). This handbook was compiled under the auspices of the Pacific Ocean Pollution Prevention Programme (PACPOL).

Climate change is one of the biggest issues facing the world today. Those in the Pacific see its effects with increasing regularity. There are king tides contaminating fresh water supplies, coral bleaching destroying the natural beauty and impacting the environmental appeal for tourists, and there are more frequent severe weather events such as cyclones.

The world is being swamped by mountains of rubbish.This is a problem everywhere, and no more so than in the small island nations of the Pacific. The challenge is to deal with all this rubbish. This Resource Kit aims to assist those working in waste management to deal with the rubbish problem, by showing how to extract resources from the waste stream while keeping costs down.