The vice president told delegates from several Asia Pacific countries who were attending a regional conference on waste management that the Maldives had recently developed a national policy on waste management based on internationally agreed principles. It aims to create regional waste reduction facilities rather than creating atoll level systems, he said.
“This is particularly important to make it economically feasible, environmentally sustainable and locally appropriate,” he said, after inaugurating the Regional 3R Forum in Asia and Pacific at Dharubaaruge.
Adeeb announced the government’s “ambitious mission” to develop a model regional waste management facility, under the new policy. He said the planned facility would cover all inhabited islands, tourist resorts and industrial islands in four atolls in the north of the country, adding that it would utilise state of the art technology in order to be financially sustainable.
