The Sindh Solid Waste Management Board (SSWMB) and the Pakistan Tanners Association (PTA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cleaning and lifting garbage from the industrial areas of the city.
MD, SSWMB Zubair Channa and PTA officials signed the agreement at the association’s office. Channa said they would make efforts to remove all the garbage from Karachi, and explained that the efforts were being made by the board to lift garbage from the industrial areas.
Board had already kicked off garbage collection in District Korangi’s Shah Faisal Zone; however, it was drafting a plan to lift industrial and municipal waste from the Korangi Industrial Area, he said and vowed that the industrial and municipal waste would be lifted separately, and efforts would be made to dump it in a safer manner.The president of the association said affairs between the PTA and SSWMB had been resolved in a peaceful manner.
