{"id":109346,"date":"2020-12-04T15:47:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T22:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109346"},"modified":"2020-12-04T15:47:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T22:47:10","slug":"recycling-drop-box-for-disposable-pens-and-toothbrushes-handed-over-to-prime-minister-mahinda-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/04\/recycling-drop-box-for-disposable-pens-and-toothbrushes-handed-over-to-prime-minister-mahinda-rajapaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling Drop Box for Disposable Pens and Toothbrushes Handed Over to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Unit<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A recycling drop box for disposable pens and toothbrushes was\nhanded over to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa by Mahinda Amaraweera.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This initiative was launched based on the shared theme of\nDiscipline, Not Law\u201d to promote recycling and find economic-based sustainable\nwaste solutions in Sri Lanka.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government\u2019s sustainable agenda to collect empty carbon pens\nand used toothbrushes for recycling will play a prominent role in reducing the\namount of plastic released to the environment. Every day, 80KG of carbon pens\nare used in schools, which makes it a significant environmental issue.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Environment signed a Memorandum of Understanding\n(MoU) with INSEE Cement and Atlas Sri Lanka to support this recycling project.\nUnder this agreement, discarded waste material such as carbon pens and\ntoothbrushes will be collected and repurposed by INSEE and Atlas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each school and state institution will be given a\nespecially-designed drop box that will hold 3,000 used pens and 500 used\ntoothbrushes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Rajapaksa appreciated this initiative, which\nhelps tackle the recycling issue and works towards a more sustainable and\nenvironmentally-friendly Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Unit A recycling drop box for disposable pens and toothbrushes was handed over to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa by Mahinda Amaraweera.&nbsp; This initiative was launched based on the shared theme of Discipline, Not Law\u201d to promote recycling and find economic-based sustainable waste solutions in Sri Lanka.&nbsp; The government\u2019s sustainable agenda to collect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}