PESHAWAR
\nWater and Sanitation Services Peshawar (WSSP) on Tuesday launched an awareness drive to promote waste segregation at source level to ensure cleanliness of the city and safe disposal of waste.
\nThe drive aims to encourage segregation of waste for better and safe disposal of waste. Masses from every walk of life would be sensitized, engaged and appealed to implement the practice of waste segregation at their homes, markets, shops, offices and workshops.
\nChairman Board of Directors Muhammad Rizwan Khan, Zonal Manager Engr Turab Shah, Manager Basit Khattak, trader\u2019s leader Khalid Ayub and others kicked off the drive by holding an awareness walk in Board Bazaar.
\nThey were holding banners and placards bearing slogans like \u2018For cleaner Peshawar, waste segregation is the need of the hour.\u2019
\nDuring the drive, WSSP\u2019s community outreach teams would hold meetings with vendors, traders, shopkeepers, and plaza and market owners as well as conduct door-to-door visits to sensitize women on the importance of waste segregation.
\nSince women could play a greater role in waste segregation, therefore they would be sensitized by holding awareness sessions with them daily during the drive.
\nMasses would be asked to use three-bins, using red bins for glass, metals and non-biodegradable waste, green bins for biodegradable waste and blue bins for papers, wrappers and other recyclable waste.
\nWSSP has already placed three-color bins at a street in University Town on an experimental basis where households segregate waste and throw it in the allocated bin.
\nSpeaking on the occasion, Rizwan stressed on starting implementing of the concept to ensure cleanliness of the city. \u201cPromoting waste segregation would be a time-consuming practice and it takes time to make people implement and practice it,\u201d he said.
\nHe said waste bins with different colours would be introduced and placed at specific localities. He appealed to pack biodegradable, recyclable and nonbiodegradable waste in separate biodegradable shopping bags and dump them properly.
\nRizwan said waste segregation at source level would not only make its transportation to transfer stations easy but also keep environment clean by safely disposing it.
\n\u201cMasses are being sensitized on benefits and importance of waste segregation at source level
\n\u201cWe have been working on different ideas to ensure sanitation in the city. Their success is totally dependent on the masses\u2019 cooperation,\u201d he said. He said WSSP is engaging masses from all walks of life to promote sustainable sanitation.
\nHe urged the masses to cooperate with WSSP sanitary staff by implementing the idea of waste segregation and dumping waste at designated places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PESHAWAR Water and Sanitation Services Peshawar (WSSP) on Tuesday launched an awareness drive to promote waste segregation at source level to ensure cleanliness of the city and safe disposal of waste. The drive aims to encourage segregation of waste for better and safe disposal of waste. Masses from every walk of life would be sensitized, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-peshawar"},"yoast_head":"\n