The Hon. P. Ruwan Senarath - Deputy Minister of Provincial Councils and Local Government
The Deputy Minister tabled the Government’s response on measures for solid waste management, confirming daily collection, temporary non-decaying waste centres, public awareness, monitoring, inter-local authority programmes, and efficient use of sanitary landfill sites. He also stated that the Ashraff Nagar waste retention facility and related infrastructure had been assigned to Comt Bio Gas Oluvil under a conditional public-private partnership MOU for recycling and related waste-to-energy, biogas, and compost activities, following a General Council decision on 17 March 2026.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, on behalf of the Minister of Public Administration, Provincial Councils and Local Government, I table the answer.
¶ 02 Answer tabled:
¶ 03 (a) (i) Yes. (ii) Yes.
¶ 04 (b) (i) Strengthening daily waste collection and disposal services. (ii) Maintaining temporary non-decaying waste collection centres. (iii) Taking necessary steps to raise public awareness. (iv) Implementing a continuous monitoring mechanism. (v) Implementing integrated programmes with the support of other local authorities. (vi) Taking measures to use sanitary landfill sites efficiently.
¶ 05 (ii) Yes. Under an integrated solid waste management approach to implement electricity generation, biogas production, compost production and recycling, the Ashraff Nagar waste retention facility and related infrastructure have been assigned, under a public-private partnership, to Comt Bio Gas Oluvil (a private company) through a conditional MOU to carry out formal recycling. Necessary steps were taken by a General Council decision dated 17.03.2026.
¶ 06 If not applicable: Not relevant.
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