{"id":59355,"date":"2016-10-03T12:18:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T19:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=59355"},"modified":"2016-10-03T12:18:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T19:18:10","slug":"open-letter-to-minister-faizer-musthafa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/10\/03\/open-letter-to-minister-faizer-musthafa\/","title":{"rendered":"Open letter to Minister Faizer Musthafa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Dehiwela<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Recent news says the minister has asked the people to sort out their garbage and unless they do that, it will not be collected. He had failed dot inform the public what good it does to sort out the garbage since the dumping ground is still a question mark.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Minister, it would have been much more practical if only you could have \u00a0informed the public to use the perishables to create compost. The rest can, of course, be recycled; the greatest portion of the garbage collected from homes are the perishables from the kitchen and the garden refuse.\u00a0 This is considered to be black gold in some countries where they see and recognize a good thing, which is not the trait of Srilankans anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Minister, To overcome the garbage disposal all you have to do is to provide a compost bin to each household and ask them to dump the perishables in to them. Is that a big deal? But then we Srilankans, never follow \u00a0the obviously simple means , do we? The cost of the compost bins, which can be made from recycled plastic, will cost only a fraction of the salary and the transport of tons and tons of garbage, which has no place to go.\u00a0 On the other hand the compost is selling at 200 rupees a bag of 10 kilos \u2013 either the householder can use it or can sell it.<\/p>\n<p>This obviously is not a novel invention \u2013 it is a well known, well tried profitable way of disposing garbage by garden lovers. All it needs is a little dedication and education of the public.<\/p>\n<p>Why not try\u00a0 this at least in one area, as a pilot project. I am sure you are in for a huge surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Sent by:<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,<\/p>\n<p>, Dehiwela<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Dehiwela Recent news says the minister has asked the people to sort out their garbage and unless they do that, it will not be collected. He had failed dot inform the public what good it does to sort out the garbage since the dumping ground is still a question mark. Dear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59355","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=59355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}