Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) assists Lautoka City Council with Waste Amount and Composition Survey

Lautoka City Council is pleased to announce the successful completion of Waste Amount and Composition survey for Lautoka and Suva City. The survey was conducted by SCOPE Pacific (SPL) and funded by The Japanese Technical Cooperation Project for Promotion of Regional Initiative on Solid Waste Management in Pacific Island Countries Phase 2 (JPRISM II). The survey for Lautoka city was conducted for seven consecutive days from 26^th April 2022 to 2^nd May 2022 covering 50 households from both urban and peri urban residential areas. The last survey was conducted in 2009 under Fiji’s JICA 3Rs Project.

The scope of survey included the following:

• pre-survey questionnaire to collect basic household data, concerns and perceived disposal patterns.
• Waste collection, segregation & weighing
• Data analysis and reporting.

The objective of the study was to obtain data regarding present household solid waste generation rates and waste composition from the participants. The waste generation rate is useful to estimate the total waste generation amount of whole population and understand the waste flows.

The average Waste Generation Rate for the study in the two cities was calculated at 429 grams per person per day. The waste generation rate for Lautoka is 326 grams per person per day. The largest contributor for waste in Lautoka were Greens which was approximately 39% of the total waste generated.  The Waste composition data is summarized in Pie Chart below.