A VAKA Forum has been launched by the Pacific Recycling Foundation today, strengthening Fiji's series of dialogues aimed at advancing the nation’s journey towards sustainable and circular waste management.
This event, co-hosted with JPRISM, brought together CEOs and Special Administrators of all municipal councils.
PRF Founder Amitesh Deo emphasizes that through this forum, they will work with the councils to make that transition, from disposal to recovery, and from short-term fixes to long-term circular systems.
Deo adds that the VAKA Forum Series represents a new era, one that ensures open dialogue, adding it is about breaking down silos, creating shared accountability, and building systems that reflect their values of people before profit and doing no harm.
He explains that landfills and dumpsites are not just expensive to maintain, they destroy ecosystems, release methane, and pollute oceans.
He adds that landfills have a lifespan, and with the current rate of waste generation, that lifespan is becoming shorter and more costly.
He stresses that the only materials that should end up in landfills are those that cannot be recovered or recycled in any form.
