National
workshop of ENVIS centres and nodes
Organised by Ministry of Environment and Forests at Dehradun
– between 25th and 27th June, 2004, ICPE participated in the
3-day-National workshop, attended by about 70 of the 85 ENVIS Centres
and Nodes all over the country selected by the Ministry to act as
nodal points of Environment Information System in different fields.
The Workshop was held at Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. The
World Bank Assisted Program on “Environmental Management Capacity
Building Technical Assistance (EMCBTA)” was scheduled for the
period July 01, 2002 to June 30, 2004. MoEF has decided to fund some
of the Centres/Nodes so that the Environmental Information System
is continued for the benefit of the country. ICPE has been selected
as one of such Centre/Node, which will receive the fund from the Ministry.
During the course of the Workshop, relevant queries on the position
of Plastics in the Environment were replied.
The issues were:
PVC and Dioxin
Phthalate Plasticisers and Cancer
The real reason of various State Government’s banning the use
of Polyethylene ‘carry bags’ less than 40-micron or in the
case of H.P., less than 70-micron thickness.
Recycling
Park
Waste Busters, a Lahore-based environmental Non Governmental
Organisation (NGO), and Tetra Pak Pakistan have signed a Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU) to recycle 30 million post-consumer Tetra Pak
cartons in the current year. According to the MoU, Waste Busters will
use all its resources to collect PCW from Lahore and other cities
to reach a target of 30 million cartons by the end of 2004. It will
also collect PCW from households, scavengers, schools and factories
of Tetra Pak’s customers to achieve the target. This MoU marks
the beginning of the second phase of Tetra Pak’s recycling campaign
“Proud Pakistanis Recycle”, launched last year in Lahore
on World Environment Day 2003. Under this campaign over 10 million
cartons were recycled in Lahore. The objective of the campaign is
to provide clean and healthy living environment to the people of Pakistan,
and to promote small and medium enterprises in the recycling industry
for employment generation and poverty alleviation. Reproduced from
Eco-Echoes, Vol. 5 Issue- 2, ICPE News Letter (Source: www.tetrapak.com)
Used
carton collection expands
The
Tetra Pak Philippines — used carton collection program has now
expanded to one of Manila’s largest shopping malls. The Ayala
Foundation, Ayala Property Management Inc, Ayala Center and Tetra
Pak Philippines launched the Tetra Pak Carton Collection and Recycling
Programm at the Ayala Center shopping mall, with representatives from
various government agencies and nongovernment organizations. Collection
bins were handed over to Ayala Bus Terminal, Ayala MRT station and
three supermarkets to serve as dropoff points for used Tetra Pak cartons.
Department of Environment Secretary Elisea Gozun congratulated Tetra
Pak and its partners for this recycling project. “I would like
to encourage the public to collect used Tetra Pak cartons and bring
them to the drop-off points so that these will be recycled into composite
boards.” The cartons are recycled into composite boards by Trans-National
Paper Corporation. These composite boards are water resistant, durable,
sound proof, formaldehyde free and can be sawn, moulded and screwed
like other building boards. Raw material for composite board manufactured
at the Trans-National Paper Corporation plant is collected partly
through Manila schools participating in the ‘Tetra Pak Care and
Share Program’. This program that began in 2002 has placed recycling
bins in selected schools, where students deposit their used cartons
— from home as well as the ones used at school. In 2003, 45 schools
collected empty, flattened cartons throughout the school year. The
program concluded with a prize distribution to the schools with the
best collection record, during Tetra Pak Philippines’ ‘Environment
Day’ in December, 2003. Nine Manila schools shared cash and other
rewards worth a total of PhP 290,000 (approx. USD 5,200), in the prize
distribution. Also, each of the more ‘affluent’ schools
that took part ‘adopted’ a much less privileged school —
and those schools‘adopted’ by the top four winning schools
also received another PhP 1,40,000 (approx. USD 2,500) in rewards,
comprising cash or useful items made from recycled material. Collection
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