KARACHI: Federal Minister for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination, Dr. Musadiq Masood Malik, on Wednesday, visited the under-construction sanitary engineered landfill site Jam Chakro under Sindh Solid Waste Management Board.
The landfill site has a capacity to dispose of 10,000 tons of waste per day.
Sindh Secretary Environment, Zubair Ahmed Channa, Managing Director SSWMB, Tariq Ali Niz-amani, Secretary SSWMB, Nowruz Abbasi, World Bank officials and other concerned officers were present.
SSWMB’s Consultant Environment, Farhan Lodhi, gave a detailed briefing regarding the ongoing construction and development works at the landfill site. He said that five new sanitary landfill cells were being constructed at the Jam Chakro landfill site, which included complete sanitary infrastructure as per international standards i.e. a leach ate management system and a landfill gas collection system.
That, a plan was underway to cap and rehabilitate the old waste-site spread over an area of 108 hectares, with an estimated 40 million tons of waste present.
These projects would be funded by dollars 20 million in climate finance funding, which was being provided under the Pak Flow Project and was being monitored by the World Bank.
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