Coca-Cola Beverages Sri Lanka Ltd’s (CCBSL) significant partnership with the Ceylon Fishery Harbours Corporation is making great strides in deepening its drive to accelerate recovery of PET plastics in Sri Lanka,.
CCBSL established 15 large scale 5000 kg huts for the collection of plastic PET bottles in Dikkowita, Negombo, Galle, Mirissa, Cot bay, Nilwella, Suduwella, Kirinda, Kalpitiya, Chilaw, Hambantota, Thalawila harbours and Tangalle and Kudawella ports with the objective of providing a much-needed disposal mechanism for the large number of PET bottles that are taken on a daily basis by the fishing community to sea.
The PET volume collected to date by the harbour huts project is close to 21,500 kg in less than a year, which amounts to approximately 752,500 PET bottles. This joint effort has made a notable contribution to CCBSL’s overarching signature waste management programme, ‘Give Back Life’, to increase the volume of PET bottle collection and recycling in the island through its recycling partner - Eco-Spindles Private Ltd, a subsidiary of BPPL holdings, the beverage company said in a media release.
J.P. Mudalige - General Manager, Ceylon Fishery Harbours Corporation said, “As the Ceylon Fishery Harbours Corporation, we are delighted to enter into this partnership with Coca-Cola Beverages Sri Lanka Ltd and Eco Spindles to resolve this crisis that was polluting our oceans and affecting our precious marine resources. This issue was also negatively affecting the livelihoods of our fisher community and the fishing industry, as more plastics in the ocean would mean less quality fish in the sea. Thanks to this initiative, we can conserve our most precious ocean resource in our island and our fishing industry that depends on it.”
Elaborating on the benefits of the partnership, Dr. Anush Amarasinghe - Managing Director, BPPL Holdings added, “BPPL Holdings is grateful to Coca-Cola’s efforts as a responsible producer to take the ‘Give Back Life’ initiative to our harbours, which can now collect a large amount of PET bottles that otherwise would have ended up in the ocean. This initiative will help us increase our recovery and recycling rates and the sale and export of our brushes, filaments and polyester yarn and thereby support the national economy.”
Picture: The Negombo Fishery Harbour ‘Give back Life’ Plastic PET bottle collection hut.
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