The Hon. Sivagnanam Shritharan
Hon. Sivagnanam Shritharan proposed modernizing a 330-acre factory site to recycle waste paper and plastic into raw materials and paper products, creating large-scale employment. He noted that technologies already exist globally, including the use of banana fibre, and argued that local raw materials in Batticaloa District could support renewed paper production.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Deputy Minister, thank you. There is ample waste paper in the country, and globally there is technology to pulp and recycle used paper into new products. Similarly, plastic waste can be converted back into raw material. Using the 330-acre site, we can create large-scale employment by upgrading the factory into a major modern operation utilizing waste paper and plastic waste. Even banana fibre is now being explored as an input for paper. If we adopt such modern methods, the Batticaloa district’s local raw materials could underpin paper production there.
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Cite as: The Hon. Sivagnanam Shritharan. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 20 March 2025. No. 1746596381071973. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/24042