Islamabad: The Senate Standing Committee on Climate Change Monday in its endeavour to make the country plastic free had managed successfully to turn the Parliament Secretariat ‘plastic bags and one time use plastic bottles free’.The Senate body meeting held here with Senator Sitara Ayaz in chair mulled over solid waste and ambient pollution management initiatives taken by CDA, Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI) and Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (PAK-EPA) respectively. The Ministry of Climate Change (MoCC) distributed cotton bags among the committee members and participants of the meeting to discourage and reduce the usage of plastic bags.Additional Secretary, MoCC Babar Hayat Tarar said that under the mechanism for plastic free Islamabad, every customer would be charged for a cotton bag which would assist in bringing the cotton bags vogue. “We were dependent on the hospitals owners of the federal capital to ascertain the quantity of hospital waste produced and disposed off into incinerators. We intend to audit the hospital waste report as a third party and are also working to develop software for real time data.”Chairperson Committee Senator Sitara Ayaz intervened that during her visit to India, Bangladesh and other regional countries, it was astounding to see that they were leading Pakistan in terms of environment conservation, adding “we need to scale up our efforts to catch with their pace.
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