PESHAWAR: A United Nation body has show interest to set up an integrated resource recovery centre for solid waste management in the provincial capital.
This was revealed by UN Habitat Country Manager Bella Evidente, while expressing interest in sanitation of the Peshawar city. Evidente said that the resource centre would include solid waste management, behavioural change, community mobilisation, composite production and recycling of solid waste.
She was leading a team of experts of the UN-Habitat during a meeting with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Finance Minister Muzaffar Said here. The UN team pointed out that the same facility had already been set up in Islamabad.
Muzaffar Syed stressed the need for behavioural change to redress sanitation problems to keep the environment clean and healthy. He added that the provincial government was taking visible steps for beautification of the provincial metropolis.
Water and Sanitation Services Peshawar general manager Nasir Ghafoor Khan and behaviour change communications office of UN-Habitat, Jannat Durrani, were also in attendance.
