UNDP, Unilever Bangladesh and Narayanganj City Corporation jointly took a move to reduce plastic pollution by recycling and reusing plastic waste.
As part of the joint initiative and symbolic one, some hundred women employees from Unilever Bangladesh and UNDP on Wednesday collected plastic wastes from Rasel Park at Narayanganj ahead of International Women’s Day.
Talking at the event, Sakshi Handa, human resources (HR) director of Unilever Bangladesh said “We have a plan to collect more plastic than we produce every day and recycle it to make the city clean and keep the environment green and healthy.”
“We want to ensure sustainable development by engaging more women," she added.
Terming the move encouraging, Selina Hayat Ivy NCC Mayor who attended the event as a chief guest said women are doing many exemplary works.
If women cleaners of the corporation stop cleaning the city for only two days, it will become unlivable, she noted.
Yugesh Pradhanang, program manager of UNDP said sustainable waste management is an important element for cities and municipalities in order to pave the way for reduction of per capita environmental impact.
Unilever and UNDP Bangladesh are developing a systematic sustainable approach that would not only reduce, reuse and recycle the plastic but also improve the livelihood sustainability and increase resilience as well as health safety of waste pickers, a group of extremely poor people who live at the lowest continuum of socio-economic conditions, their representatives noted.
