A youth has turned plastic waste into a foreign revenue earning business by manufacturing bags used in the textile industry. Sulalitha Perera collects plastic from garbage dumps at Bandaragama, Panadura and purchases plastic waste disposed from seven local government institutes and recycles them to manufacture the textile bags. Bag manufacturing has also given job opportunities [...]

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A youth has turned plastic waste into a foreign revenue earning business by manufacturing bags used in the textile industry.

Sulalitha Perera collects plastic from garbage dumps at Bandaragama, Panadura and purchases plastic waste disposed from seven local government institutes and recycles them to manufacture the textile bags.

Bag manufacturing has also given job opportunities to many other youths.

The textile bags are produced by collecting, washing and recycling discarded plastic. Currently the bags have gained a demand in the Katunayake trade zone.

Mr Perera added that previously the material to manufacture bags used in the textile industry used to be imported but now with his recycling of plastic waste the money used to import material could be saved.

He added that he would purchase plastic discarded from houses as well. 

Pix and text by Rekha Tharangani Fonseka

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