Solid waste transportation by train commenced today for the first time in the Sri Lanka's history.
The waste, collected from the Wanawasala Garbage Center, was transported to the Aruvakkadu landfill project in Puttalam
Some residents in the area have expressed their opposition Group of protesters gathered near Noor Nagar railway station today.
Responding to criticisms by residents and politicians in Puttalam that the Aruwakkalu landfill would pollute ground water and the lagoon, Social Specialist Nimal Premathilake of the Ministry’s Solid Waste Management Project stressed that they take the 100 percent responsibility for its construction and that all those claims were baseless.
Ministry Secretary Rupasinghe observed that ‘waste to energy’ projects were too expensive for the country, and that the Cabinet has decided not to construct them any more after the two projects currently being implemented in Karadiyana and Kerawalapitiya.
“Even if you implement waste to energy projects, you need landfills to deposit the bottom ash generated by them. Thirty percent of solid waste fed in to them will end up as bottom ash,” he explained
