Garbage collection: Biodegradable bags being introduced
Scheme aims to help reduce environmental pollution in the city.
Scheme aims to help reduce environmental pollution in the city. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD:
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided to introduce biodegradable bags for collecting household garbage.
The authority will distribute free of cost bags among the residents of Sector G-7. Later, the project will be extended to other municipality areas, said an official while sharing minutes of a meeting that reviewed the progress of the agency’s civic management wing here on Monday.
The meeting was told that the private sector was also being approached to execute the project that aims to discourage use of plastic bags which is the main cause of environmental degradation, a spokesperson for the civic agency said.
The meeting, presided over by the CDA chairman, Maroof Afzal, was also informed that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has also been taken on board to seek technical assistance in this regard.
The spokesperson said that the biodegradable bags decompose when exposed to natural environment and wastes from decomposed biodegradable plastic do not harm the environment and rather they could be reused in various ways due to its organic nature.
As a pilot project, 15 biodegradable plastic bags with each having capacity of 10 kilograms, will be distributed among each house in Sector G-7 every month.
The residents would be asked to package household garbage in the bags, which would later be disposed of scientifically after its collection, the official said.
The CDA chairman said that the authority was committed to making Islamabad more clean and green and introduction biodegradable plastic bags would help reduce environmental pollution in the city which will eventually help provide healthier environment to the residents.
He directed the environment wing to carry out an awareness campaign before launching the scheme so that the desired results could be achieved.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 1st, 2016.
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided to introduce biodegradable bags for collecting household garbage.
The authority will distribute free of cost bags among the residents of Sector G-7. Later, the project will be extended to other municipality areas, said an official while sharing minutes of a meeting that reviewed the progress of the agency’s civic management wing here on Monday.
The meeting was told that the private sector was also being approached to execute the project that aims to discourage use of plastic bags which is the main cause of environmental degradation, a spokesperson for the civic agency said.
The meeting, presided over by the CDA chairman, Maroof Afzal, was also informed that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has also been taken on board to seek technical assistance in this regard.
The spokesperson said that the biodegradable bags decompose when exposed to natural environment and wastes from decomposed biodegradable plastic do not harm the environment and rather they could be reused in various ways due to its organic nature.
As a pilot project, 15 biodegradable plastic bags with each having capacity of 10 kilograms, will be distributed among each house in Sector G-7 every month.
The residents would be asked to package household garbage in the bags, which would later be disposed of scientifically after its collection, the official said.
The CDA chairman said that the authority was committed to making Islamabad more clean and green and introduction biodegradable plastic bags would help reduce environmental pollution in the city which will eventually help provide healthier environment to the residents.
He directed the environment wing to carry out an awareness campaign before launching the scheme so that the desired results could be achieved.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 1st, 2016.