Seacology received a final report for the project, detailing the success in establishing the permanent landfill in Arega and the amendment of the local constitution to legally enshrine a waste-management plan.

According to Field Representative Lenin Riquelme, ‘Delivery of equipment has been long completed as plastic bottle crushers and weighing scales have been already handed to local island health committees. More recently, and in compliance with the project´s Community Covenant, the Kuna General Congress has incorporated a chapter on the Kuna Yala Fundamental Set of Laws–the Kuna people´s constitution- that orders local councils to conduct waste management in each Kuna community. The response has been a swift one: garbage collection is increasingly becoming commonplace in each beneficiary island. They have designated “clean points” where project-donated garbage baskets are placed. Kuna women organized in committees – Bundur Gan Kalu in Kuna parlance – have taken a lead in cleaning their communities’ narrow corridors between rows of houses. Periodically this garbage is loaded into boats by appointed garbage collectors – it is then taken to a newly designated 12,891 square meter landfill area located in Arega, near the Ilapopa Hill, 1.5 kilometers from the mouth of the Sugandi River. Collection and sale of aluminum cans is also a new business: school science groups and local dwellers can be seen collecting, crushing, bagging them and taking them to the buyers who stop by the islands.

On March 27, equipment including can crushers, trash baskets, paper and plastic cutters, plastic bottle crushers, plastic bags, and gloves were distributed to specific strategic locations. These included local schools at the islands of Corbiski, Tupile, Mulatupu, Mamitupu, and Yandup as well as at the Niga Kantule customs office (the Carti entrance/departure point on the mainland), Aguja Island tourism facility, local congress office, and local library at Sugdup Island. A general cleanup was conducted on April 4th at Sugdup Island and Niga Kantule terminal, with the participation of 80 students, 30 school teachers, and 20 civil service personnel including the police and the National Environmental Authority. This cleanup has helped change the face of these two sights from unpleasant garbage-choked places to cleaner destinations. The cleanup collected 2,500 pounds of garbage and more than 200 pounds of recyclables; the garbage was taken to a landfill on the mainland while the recyclables are being stored for later sale. Local participants not only came from the beneficiary islands but also from island communities beyond the project geographical scope, such as Acuatupu, Naranjo Grande, Arritupu, and Rio Sidra. More cleanups are upcoming at other islands.