“It was a great start to the Sustainable Financing for Waste Management study tour here in Canberra listening to different regulators speak about how their systems were planned and designed, the challenges they faced, and how the development and implementation stages have evolved or still are.

What stuck with me was to identify markets before planning a recycling system in your country.

I intend to use and share learnings from the Talanoa sessions with colleagues, stakeholders, and our waste project partners, taking what is applicable to our standard and making improvements as we go through our system development stages.

Excited for the remaining days of this study tour so I can learn more from industry experts and also from my Pacific colleagues about their experiences, challenges, and solutions”