Solid Waste Audit

This dataset reports solid waste abundance and composition data from households and commercial activities expressed in number of items, weight or volume for Vanuatu. It reports the results of interviews done when solid waste samples were collected to gather metadata about household occupants social and behavioural metadata, including the fate of solid waste not collected through the official waste management service. Waste audits were conducted between November and December 2018 in Efate island (Port Vila, 50 samples; and the rural community of Black Sands, 35 samples), Espiritu Santo islands (Luganville and rural communities, 49 samples) and two outer islands: Lelepa (Efate, 61 samples) and Ifira (Efate, 10 samples). Commercial activities were also audited (30 in Port Vila; and 15 in Luganville).