The government of the Pacific Island nation of Fiji is working with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to help it maximize the collection and reprocessing of plastic packaging scrap generated in the nation.
According to an online article by the Fiji Sun, NGO Precious Plastic Fiji is working with other organizations to import machinery to help carry out a plastic recycling program for the nation.
Precious Plastic Fiji is working in cooperation with the UNICEF agency of the United Nations and Field Ready Fiji, which is affiliated with the United States-based NGO Field Ready.
The effort will reportedly also involve students at a vocational training center in Fiji, who will help assemble machinery and devise processes to collect and reprocess plastic scrap.
“We are interested in helping the schools recycle plastics [and] learn how to separate, wash and recycle [the materials],”Ade Ogunniyi of Field Ready is quoted as saying of the students. According to the Fiji Sun, Precious Plastics will own the machinery and will make final determinations on the most suitable and cost-effective ways to recycle collected plastics.