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The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) is the Pacific region’s major intergovernmental organisation charged with protecting and managing the environment and natural resources. SPREP works with and on behalf of its 21 member countries and territories to promote cooperation in the Pacific islands region, providing assistance to protect and improve the Pacific environment and to ensure sustainable development for present and future generations.

A decade ago, Government embarked on a refurbishment programme of schools and hospitals which created asbestos as its by-product being stockpiled as unwanted and unusable waste. Most of these asbestos were left sitting on pallets at various sites awaiting disposal. At the time, an estimated 700 tonnes of asbestos waste lay ready to be disposed and recently more asbestos is added from the demolition of the old Island Foods factory.

Non-friable, corrugated, compressed asbestos-cement sheeting, derived from the NZ Aid refurbishment and renovations programme of schools and other Government buildings on Rarotonga