'Alice' Leney has worked across virtually all of the Pacific Islands. He has been working with Pacific people to help deal with their waste problems for nearly thirty years: he wrote a waste handbook for the Pacific Islands, Rubbish No More in 1995 which was widely distributed amongst NGOs in the Pacific as waste was clearly a growing, but ignored, issue. He then set up a business operating around the Pacific offering coral reef protection through the installation of mooring buoys and solar power installations.
From 2002 to 2005 he worked to design and implement a deposit/refund recycling system for Kiribati, working alongside the Kiribati government, local NGO FSP Kiribati, and multilateral donors. The simple system devised, still operating commercial today, became a template for other small island states in the region. He subsequently worked across the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands to set up similar systems. He also designed and implemented a pre-paid garbage bag system for South Tarawa, 'The Green Bag' which has provided a model for other small island developing states (SIDS) trying to build sustainable waste collection systems. Currently Alice is the Programme Manager of Phase 3 of the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT)f-funded Kiribati Solid Waste Programme, enjoying another stint living in South Tarawa.
Alice has worked in a variety of consulting and technical assistance contracts dealing with waste management and recycling issues, with development agencies including MFAT, UNDP, SPREP, ADB, JICA & WHO. He brings many years of on-the-ground experience of project design, implementation and management to his work. He has consulted widely on waste oils, e-waste, atoll landfill problems, and recycling systems.
Alice comes from an engineering background, and as such takes a very practical approach to finding solutions that must be simple, effective, and designed for local conditions. He lives off-grid in New Zealand with a collection of vintage motorcycles kept in constant running order, and makes a point of periodically taking long journeys by vintage motorcycle, sometimes of several months across continents (on these sort of trips problem-solving can come in very handy!).
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