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Environmentally hazardous plastics to be recycled

by Florence Wickramage

The cooperation of around 232 Registered Plastics Manufacturing Companies together with around 350 small-scale plastics businessmen have been sought by the Sri Lanka Centre for Plastics in Environment (SLCPE) to participate in a programme of re-cycling waste plastics which currently is being regarded as hazardous to a clean environment.

Minimising the effect of plastics in the environment is in the forefront of a programme launched by the SLCPE under the guidance of the Plastics and Rubber Industry of Sri Lanka.

The SLCPE came into action following a Task Force appointed by the Ministry of Enterprise Development which was commissioned to look into the harmful effects of plastics on the environment and to initiate action to minimise its dangers.

Chairman of the Publicity Sub Committee of SLCPE Punya Arambewela said that dangers to the environment posed by plastics have been magnified due to the lack of a proper disposal system. He emphasised that plastics were 100 percent recyclable and already there are several re-cycling plants in operation. Stating that adverse public opinion to the use of plastics have been generated in the society due to its non biodegradability Arambewela said the SLCPE has drawn up a program to secure the cooperation of plastics manufacturers to launch into the recycling process of waste plastics to ensure that there were no harmful effects on the environment.

Arambewela further emphasised that the SLCPE is aiming towards achieving their vision of "creating a responsible that makes plastics work for the betterment of life, reusing through re-cyling and substituting scarce natural resources such as valuable green forest, thus plastics will be recognized and treated as an environmentally friendly resource, protecting Green Lanka for the future generations to be born".

Members of the SLCPE who briefed the media on their mission and their goals were experts Kalyana Dheerasekera, Past President of SLAAS Anver Dole, T.L. Chandraratne, Dr. Sudantha Liyanage, Sarath Wijesinghe and Sarath Kumara Perera.

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