Geocycle starts Municipal Solid Waste Management from Katunayake, Seeduwa UC

Industrial waste specialist celebrates 10 decades of greening the environment by moving industrial waste management into municipal waste management.

Every day citizens of Colombo and the suburbs generate tones of garbage: half of which lies uncollected, and rest of it which gets dumped into lands causing severe issues each year, including unsanitary conditions, and health problems.

Geocycle, the waste specialist, whose specialized in managing industrial wastes has now stepped in to provide a sustainable solution for such Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW) generated in the country.

Susil Premjayantha, Minister for Environment and Renewable Energy being conducted to the event.Picture by Saliya Rupasinghe

Commemorating its 10th year celebrations, the wholly owned waste management business unit of Holcim Lanka Limited, the nation's leading supplier of cement and related services, will be establishing a model MSW management plant at the Katunayake-Seeduwa Urban Council area under a Private-Public Partnership concept in collaboration with the Urban Council of Katunayake-Seeduwa.

As such, the main objectives of the project will entail a complete solution for MSW in an environmental responsible manner, along with job creation for community through capacity building and training.

The Geocycle has planned to set up a waste management center for the purpose of material segregation, where separated biodegradable waste will be composting, recyclable wastes will be diverted appropriately and non-recyclable wastes will be sent for co-processing at Puttalum cement plant.

The proposed plant will therefore include a material receiving center, a segregation bed, composting area and even a specified area for pilot engineered land filling (which is part of the site). The project has been carried out in collaboration with Urban Council of Katunayaka Seeduwa,along with the blessings of Ministry of Environment, the Local Government, Western Province Chief Ministry and the Central Environmental Authority of Sri Lanka and was ceremoniously launched by Susil Premjayanth, Minister for Environment and Renewable Energy, at an event held at Water's Edge recently.

Commemorating its 10th year celebrations, this is the first of many events and activities planned by Geocycle for the year, including an International Conference for Waste Management 'Towards Waste Free Sri Lanka', in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment & Renewable Energy and the Chamber of Commerce, and a CEO's Forum including a panel discussion with eminent professionals from the industry which are to follow.

By addressing many waste management challenges faced by the industrial community, Geocycle is proud to serve the country's drive for development through its services.

From its inception in Sri Lanka on March, 22, 2003, Geocycle has disposed more than 300,000Mt of waste volumes in environmental responsible manner, waste that would unless otherwise have been a burden to the environment.

Having expanded its horizons gradually from non-hazardous wastes to hazardous wastes, the Company continues its drive to offer peace of mind to the industrial community ensuring that there will be no future environmental liabilities from the waste they generate, because tomorrow matters to all of us.

Geocycle further extended its capacity for providing additional services to its customers such as collection and transportation, branded product disposal, analytical services, total services solutions and consultancy services recently.