Sri Lanka to showcase its plans on solid waste management to address the countrys waste disposal problems by 2016 at the International Solid Waste Association World Congress 2011 in Daegu, Korea on October 17.
Chairman of the Central Environmental Authority, Charitha Herath, will deliver the keynote address at the Congress to be held on the theme “Waste to Green: Waste Management for Low Carbon and Green Growth Society. This is a forum which brings together leading international experts from the waste and resource management sector.
" The invitation to speak at Congress will give us an opportunity to showcase Sri Lanka’s ambitious efforts to address one of the key environmental problems in Sri Lanka today. With the goal of resolving the problems of solid waste by 2016 , the CEA is ambitiously implementing a number of integrated waste management solution", he said.