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People use Rs.960mn worth sachets, 5,475 mn lunch sheets a year: Amaraweera
People in the country use sachets worth Rs.960 million and 5,475 million lunch sheets a year, Environment Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said.
He said 15 million non-perishable lunch sheets made of polythene were thrown into our environment in a single day.
“All of this eventually added up to our oceans and river system and to water sources. All these are once-in-a-lifetime objects,” he said.
Being able to ban sachets and non-perishable lunch sheets that have caused great damage to our environment is a great achievement for our country environmentally, the Minister said.
“There is no sale or production of sachets in the market now. It also does not sell non-perishable lunch sheets,” he said.
“I have banned both these products. So now they do not join the environment. I think the present government's decision to ban these environmentally harmful material is a very good one,” he said.
“Sachets have now grown into a global crisis. The number of sachets distributed worldwide is 885 billion. One multinational company alone produces 40 billion sachets a year. Also, ours is the only country in the world that uses polythene lunch sheets for food wrapping. Our country releases 15 million lunch sheets a day to the environment. That amounts to 5475 million lunch sheets a year,” minister Amaraweera added. (Chaturanga Samarawickrama)
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