The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), NWFP, has prepared three draft feasibility reports of the Integrated Solid Waste and Effluent Management System in the selected cities of the province, including Peshawar, Mingora, and DI Khan.
The objective of the project is to provide an integrated solid waste and effluent management system for mitigation of solid waste and waste water problem of each city, said EPA Director Dr Muhammad Bashir, while talking to APP here on Thursday.
He said the EPA would arrange presentations on such draft studies to district governments, TMAs, and other stakeholders for apprising them about the state of solid waste in their respective areas and mitigating measures.
In the feasibility reports, he said each sector related to solid waste has been touched, including existing solid waste management practices, storage and collection, street sweeping, recycling, disposal, management of special wastes, litter bins and privatisation of waste disposal.
The EPA, he said, has made an assessment about the state of solid waste in major cities in 2026 if measures were not taken for its proper disposal. After presentations of the feasibility reports, PC-1 of the project would be prepared, he added.
Dr Bashir said the federal government had held out assurance of sponsoring the project of Integrated Solid Waste and Effluent Management System.