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Municipal Waste Management in SL causing key social, environmental, economic concerns: UNDP

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Sri Lanka’s Municipal Waste Management (MSW) is causing key social, environmental, and economic concerns as only 50 percent of the country’s waste is collected by the Central Environmental Authority (CEA), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) highlighted.

Of the 7,000 tonnes of solid waste that is produced per day, only half is collected by the CEA’s Waste Management Division. According to the UNDP, 85 percent of the waste generated is disposed of inappropriately. The common methods of waste disposal are through open dumping and burning giving rise to health and environmental impacts.

The Western Province alone generates more than 59 percent (approximately 4,200 tonnes) of solid waste with a high degree of biodegradability. With trends in urbanization and rapid population growth, municipal waste generation is expected to rise to 2.2 billion tonnes by 2025.

As the country makes headway in its green recovery, the UNDP asserted it is crucial to build measures to introduce sustainable waste management options for Local Authorities (LAs).


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  • sacre blieu Tuesday, 29 November 2022 10:36 AM

    Not surprised, that is now in the grips of a Mafia style service. No bribe, no collection of household garbage. During the time of a previous government, there was a request by a head of the government for a comprehensive garbage disposables plan and an Sri Lankan working for a similar company abroad, had, at his own expense prepared a fitting plan for such a project. He arrived in Sri Lanka to hand over the project to the Ministry concerned as requested and was given a shabby treatment and lost his temper and threw the entire report on the ground and left in utter disgust. That is how things have steered to frauds, bribery and corruption, and the way we invite genuine investors and patriotic citizens or interested people to our country to invest.


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