LAHORE: The Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) on Tuesday constituted a 30-member team to mobilise the citizens to make the provincial metropolis ‘cleanest city of the world.’

The team would reach out to every nook and corner of the city to sensitise the people to cleanliness.

Awareness sessions about the effects and hazards of litter, dissemination of literature regarding cleanliness, interactive sessions regarding the benefits of a clean environment in public gatherings and institutional campaigns would be conducted.

Lahore is generating around 6,500-7,000 tonnes solid waste on a daily basis and the company is working for extraordinary results in terms of waste management in the provincial capital.

The mobilisation team would arrange interactive sessions, meetings in educational institutes to guide students so that they could understand their responsibility to save their surroundings and the future of coming generations.

A certain percentage of solid waste is the result of commercial activities and mobilisation would also be conducted in commercial zones for achieving good results.

About 60 to 70 per cent of solid waste in Lahore is biodegradable and its major source is residential areas; door-to-door awareness talks are producing a positive change in the attitude of the masses.

In this communication process people have realised that when they dispose of things 80pc of them never go away and damage the environment and climate and it is directly impacting the community socially, economically, and spiritually with bad consequences.

LWMC Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Rafia Haider has appealed to the citizens to take good care of streets and roads by avoiding litter around as without their cooperation the sanitation problems cannot be addressed.

In case of complaints the public can always dial LWMC help line 1139 or can use mobile application Clean Lahore.

Published in Dawn, October 13th, 2021