The Baridhara Society has inaugurated a newly introduced community-based and environment-friendly waste recycling management system with an aim to make the capital's posh residential areas more liveable and green.
The society's President Firoz M Hassan inaugurated the recycling management system at a programme – Value for Waste Project – held at Baridhara Lakeside Rajuk Park, in presence of other leaders of the society, locals, media and cultural personalities.
“Applying the recycling system that is a barrel composting method, it would be possible that 40 to 48 percent of kitchen wastes will turn into high quality compost of organic fertilzer. Thus, a huge amount of wastes would not be required to be dumped at the landfills,” said Firoz M Hassan at the inauguration.
At the same time, the society also inaugurated a tree plantation programme which expects to plant some 500 saplings on the lakeside park.
“The system is affordable, environment-friendly and would be able to create a financial source which is important for the country,” he added.
Earlier in January, the new waste recycling project was introduced in the community based waste recycling system this year, funded by Swisscontact and Pran-RFL.
Firoz also claimed though the recycling system has been inaugurated recently, it had started in January of this year and the initiatives had been introduced in September-October, 2013.
The inauguration ceremony was also addressed by Badiur Rahman, former president of Baridhara Society, English daily the News Today Editor Riaz Uddin Ahmed, Ekattor Television Director Syed Ishtiaque Reza, Singer Samina Chowdhury, among others.
The new recycling system asks kitchen wastes to be separated in four categories using containers of four different colours – green, yellow, red and blue – to recycle them properly.