Garbage generation in commercial areas declines by 40-50 pc.

ISLAMABAD -- The head of Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad's (MCI) Sanitation Department has said that garbage generation in commercial areas of Islamabad had decreased by 40 to 50 per cent due to restricted mobility of residents amid the coronavirus containment measures.

Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, the commercial areas in Islamabad were generating some 100 tonnes of trash daily which now came to 50 to 60 tonnes due to restricted movement of residents, MCI Director Sanitation Sardar Khan Zimri told reporter.

Citing the example of Karachi Company, which has been sealed by the district administration recently due to spike in coronavirus cases in sector G-9, he said before the lockdown, the market produced 10 to 15 tonnes of solid waste daily which had gone to nil almost in present days. 'As per an estimate, our total garbage collection has also reduced from 600 tonnes to 500 tonnes due to selective lockdowns in the Federal Capital,' he noted. Zimri said more than 200 sanitary workers of MCI had been disengaged from the markets and deputed in villages where the garbage collection was being done...

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