The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) through the AFD-funded ‘Committing to Sustainable Waste Actions in the Pacific’ (SWAP) project conducted a training on Marine Litter at the The University of the South Pacific in Suva Fiji.
To this end, two activities took place in Fiji from 2-4 May 2023.

Training activities delivered by Sustainable Coastlines New Zealand with local stakeholders and students from USP engaged in the Pacific Ocean Litter Youth Project (POLYP). Sustainable Coastlines conducted Workshops (in theory and practical) on how to safely carry out marine litter waste clean-up and how to conduct statistically reliable waste survey and audit at two different locations in Suva, Foreshore Beach, and Point Beach. In total, 26 participants attended the training and 85 kg of waste was audited. The results of the audits are available on the Litter Intelligence online platform: https://lnkd.in/g6FekfvX

A public lecture was also held at USP to present the SWAP project and the actions being done in the Pacific on marine litter management and in particular the activities planned in Fiji. The video “Plastics Paradise” was shown, and it moved many students and people at the extent of damage our marine environment is facing.