The Centre for Sustainability (CFS) of the Department of Forestry and Environmental Science, University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ) together with one of their programme sponsors from the commercial sector, Piramal Glass Ceylon Plc launched a campaign to streamline the waste glass collection mechanism in the university. Under this project Piramal Glass Ceylon Plc will be collecting all glass waste disposed from the University for recycling purposes.
This is another successful initiative under the “Be the Change” campaign that was launched by the CFS few months back, which is aimed at raising community awareness on responsible waste disposal and the importance of using environmental friendly packaging material with a focus of making Sri Lanka a “Greener and Cleaner” place for the future.
Discussing about this initiative Prof. Nilanthi Bandara, Head, Department of Forestry and Environmental Science of USJ said, “This is an extension of the public awareness programme we launched a few weeks ago under the theme ‘Be the Change.’ Today we are pledging our own efforts towards this campaign by introducing a method to streamline the collection of waste glass in our own university. Through this we project we are pioneering the change we like to see in our society.”
Discussing their assistance towards this programme, Sanjay Tiwari, Chief Executive Officer, Piramal Glass Ceylon Plc said, “We have 21 waste glass collection locations Islandwide and this will be the newest addition to our system. We readily partnered with USJ as we saw a strategic fit between this programme and our business/manufacturing systems, which are based on environmental friendly practices. We are planning to partner with the CFS for a few more practical, focused and value adding initiatives of similar nature in the future too which will help drive awareness and action among various communities in making Sri Lanka a cleaner place.”
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This is another successful initiative under the “Be the Change” campaign that was launched by the CFS few months back, which is aimed at raising community awareness on responsible waste disposal and the importance of using environmental friendly packaging material with a focus of making Sri Lanka a “Greener and Cleaner” place for the future.
Discussing about this initiative Prof. Nilanthi Bandara, Head, Department of Forestry and Environmental Science of USJ said, “This is an extension of the public awareness programme we launched a few weeks ago under the theme ‘Be the Change.’ Today we are pledging our own efforts towards this campaign by introducing a method to streamline the collection of waste glass in our own university. Through this we project we are pioneering the change we like to see in our society.”
Discussing their assistance towards this programme, Sanjay Tiwari, Chief Executive Officer, Piramal Glass Ceylon Plc said, “We have 21 waste glass collection locations Islandwide and this will be the newest addition to our system. We readily partnered with USJ as we saw a strategic fit between this programme and our business/manufacturing systems, which are based on environmental friendly practices. We are planning to partner with the CFS for a few more practical, focused and value adding initiatives of similar nature in the future too which will help drive awareness and action among various communities in making Sri Lanka a cleaner place.”
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