Ministry of Education endorses upscaling of ‘Recycling on the Go Program’ to West-based schools

Pacific Recycling Foundation is delighted to announce that west-based schools, Jasper Williams High School and Nadi Sangam Primary School will join the Recycling on the Go (ROG) Ambassadors Program in 2023, as the Ministry of Education has endorsed PRF’s proposal to upscale the program.

The ROG Ambassadors Program is an initiative of the Pacific Recycling Foundation in partnership with Swire Shipping.

While making the announcement, PRF’s Founder, Mr. Amitesh Deo said they are absolutely delighted to take the program to the Western Division after successfully piloting it in Jai Narayan College.

“We received the Ministry of Education’s endorsement last week on our request to upscale the program to two more schools in 2023. The ROG program will be running in three schools this year as the Ministry has also endorsed for the program to continue for another year at Jai Narayan College,” said Mr. Deo.

He said they are equally grateful to Swire Shipping for their continued support of the program.

“Preparatory works have commenced for the launches, implementation of the program and a comprehensive training program aimed at impacting mindset and behaviour change toward recycling,” said Mr. Deo.

According to the PRF Founder, the implementation of the ROG Ambassadors program in an all-girls boarding/day scholar school as well as a primary school, both in the Western Division is expected to provide PRF with useful data that can be compared with the findings from Jai Narayan College and used for further upscaling as well as policy development.

He said while the ROG Ambassadors Program is aimed at inculcating best practices of recycling aimed at impacting mindset and behaviour change, it should also be noted that a significant number of recyclables from these three schools will no longer end up at the landfill or dumpsites but instead be taken for recycling.

Mr. Deo said the ROG Ambassadors program has a huge potential to foster economic, environmental, and social developments in Fiji.

Meanwhile, Mr. Deo has also revealed that they have made submissions for the Government to commit to a partnership to upscale the program to more schools in Fiji.