April 24, 2020
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Overseas, the Covid-19 economic slowdown and home lockdowns have enabled the most sudden and dramatic improvement in environmental measures like air and water pollution in modern history. But not in Cook Islands. Until you see it from above, it’s hard to comprehend the magnitude of the Rarotonga Landfill. Infrastructure Cook Islands secretary Diane Charlie-Puna describes it as a “growing solid waste monster”, insidiously taking over every square inch of the land above and below.
