Awereness raising efforts needs to be coupled with the provision of facilities and services to manage these wastes. Currently many of these wastes end up in the ocean as a result of sub-standard facilities and management practices.
Therefore, a waste management programme was established at the Samoa Ports Authority. Authority officials were trained on how to best deal with the extra waste generated by the conference.
In the framework of Samoa's efforts to green the SIDS conference, a three-day specialised training programme in the management of oil spills has culminated in the spectacular deployment of a containment boom around the Pacific Jewel cruise ship, docked in Apia Harbour for the United Nations Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
Read the SPREP article about waste management in the ports of entry into Samoa
