{"id":87243,"date":"2019-04-15T14:16:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T21:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87243"},"modified":"2019-04-15T14:16:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T21:16:45","slug":"meetotamulla-garbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/15\/meetotamulla-garbage\/","title":{"rendered":"Meetotamulla Garbage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By Garvin Karunaratne<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Two years have passed\nand the meetotamulla garbage mountains are yet intact.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many attempts have\nbeen made at clearing but none have so far worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two years ago I\nsuggested that it be used as compost on coconut estates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To me that seems the\neasiest solution and done in rupees and we do not need foreign exchange. If\nonly it had been approved the garbage mountain would have vanished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I enclose my earlier paper for kind consideration<\/p>\n\n\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Man Made Tragedies: The Garbage : Is there a way out.<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><br>Posted on May 16th, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D. Michigan State University Former Government Agent, Matara District.<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>12\/5\/2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Garbage Disaster<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The garbage pile at Meetotamulla erupted, took the lives of 32 or more and we are in complacency- now, we are talking. There are piles of Garbage at various places and some authorities state that they will not explode.&nbsp; I am certain that those authorities were well aware of the Meetotamulla Pile before it erupted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are accepted methods of turning the garbage into power, and these are being looked into but it&nbsp; will definitely take time. In the manner we now act, it may take a few years to have those systems going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime the piles that are already there are dangers and what about the daily intake of garbage, we do not know where to dump it!.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I managed my family farm- a small coconut acreage for five years and took great pains to dig trenches and fill them with dried leaves and foliage turning them into compost to be nutrients. Today in the heart of London my home garbage is buried and we apply a chemical powder to enhance the process of the garbage becoming compost. We collect the dried leaves and make compost- it takes a year or so and that too with adding chemicals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-lankaweb-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"kG7HioduI1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/05\/16\/man-made-tragedies-the-garbage-is-there-a-way-out\/\">Man Made Tragedies: The Garbage : Is there a way out.<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Man Made Tragedies: The Garbage : Is there a way out.&#8221; &#8212; LankaWeb.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/05\/16\/man-made-tragedies-the-garbage-is-there-a-way-out\/embed\/#?secret=elWDTNfvDt#?secret=kG7HioduI1\" data-secret=\"kG7HioduI1\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Garvin Karunaratne Two years have passed and the meetotamulla garbage mountains are yet intact.&nbsp; Many attempts have been made at clearing but none have so far worked. Two years ago I suggested that it be used as compost on coconut estates. To me that seems the easiest solution and done in rupees and we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-garvin-karunaratne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87243","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=87243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}